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Re: Textual Web: TUIs for the Web

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Post by MobiusHorizons »

AnonymouX47 wrote: post #23
MobiusHorizons wrote: post #14

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I think you are spot on classifying the project as “for people who want to write GUI”, based on the GitHub read me (which has screenshots) it does not appear to be a tui on the web at all https://github.com/Textualize/textual-web It looks like on the web it is rendering widgets that the library can also render via tui on the terminal. So it seems the title is quite misleading. The web based ones are not using font gl…

Umm... actually, it's still all text / font glyphs. Basically, it works via a terminal emulator running in the browser, rendering to a canvas.

ack, I was fooled by the screenshots. That is even less advisable than I had feared. the widgets would likely have very poor accessibility if they are implemented as text on canvas.

Re: Textual Web: TUIs for the Web

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Post by slmjkdbtl »

msla wrote: post #74
slmjkdbtl wrote: post #47

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In theory GUI is a superset of TUI, there's nothing inherently bad or unproductive about GUI. You can argue in practice there exist a lot of unproductive GUI that's worse than a TUI client, but I think it's the problem of the designer, not the tool. Also there are some areas that's universally acknowledged to be better suited for GUI, anything that requires visualization like video editing, image editing, 3d modeling…

> In theory GUI is a superset of TUI Only if the TUI is non-scriptable. That's the big bait-and-switch possible here: Is it a TUI in that the menu system is made out of text, or is it a TUI in that it's a command line with a scripting language and the ability to create new commands out of composable pieces? Just saying "Textual User Interface" doesn't disambiguate the two.

How com GUI isn't scriptable? Most GUI is made from scripts. Or do you mean the ability for end user to extend the software with a software-provided scripting system. In that case that's not related to GUI and TUI, all application no matter GUI or TUI can be extended by scripts if the software author wants to support that.
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