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[sclytrack]

== Quote from filgood (filgood at somewhere.net)'s article
> Hi Adam,
> Were you in the past not working on a Gui lib that did an a) type of thing?
> IFAIR, The app ran on the server, the gui was on the client. Someone
> could (via a client) connect to the app on the server, but have it
> displayed locally?

There is the gdk broadway backend. Applications run on the server.
The result is displayed in the browser

http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/

You can even display a browser in a browser.
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For running the javascript apps on the client side there is qooxdoo.
Communicates with the server with mostly JSON RPC with the
"same source policy" (I've wasted a lot of time on that one)

http://qooxdoo.org/

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And for running binaries on the client side with some form of shielding
there is Google native client.

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/06/25/qt-for-google-native-client-preview/


> ~ filgood
> On 13/06/2011 18:15, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> > sclytrack wrote:
> >> Like a replacement for HTML5 and javascript.
> >
> > You *could* make this work, but the language itself won't help you.
> >
> > There's two approaches:
> >
> > a) Run the code on your server and only output the display on the
> >     client's computer. Like an X11 application.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11
> >
> > b) Have the operating system limit the D application. It's not
> >     really possible to filter out malicious D code.
> >
> > Someone could always call an operating system function directly,
> > even marking it @trusted so it works in safe mode.
> >
> >
> > But, if you configure the operating system the right way, you can
> > make all those potentially nasty calls unavailable. Put an
> > operating system level limit on file access, put up a network
> > firewall, limit it's CPU time, etc.
> >
> > Most the newer HTML web browsers are doing this in addition to
> > javascript. The same principles can be used on almost any program.