Le 30/12/2024 à 03:26, Bruce Perens via Dng a écrit :
> These days, it makes sense for everything I write to have a web
> interface. Most of our compiled and interpretive languages run
> everywhere as long as you don't start working with the native GUI, and
> there's no need to port a web-based GUI. There aren't any facilities
> that we would expect on a native GUI and are missing from the web
> these days.

    That's obviously true for applications running on a host which is
remote to the user. And, of course, such applications can be reached
through localhost. A good example is the Cups interface on port 631. I
have some home-made applications also (~:

    However there are simple things which cannot work like this, for
example an application which remains sleeping and hidden and just pops
up an interactive window when some event happens. Also one needs to
reserve one port for every such web server and keep them in the
browser's bookmark.

--     Didier