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Subject: Re: I am fed up with Python GUI toolkits...
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:
> And then you have the cross platform nirvana. Except for the browsers'
> various differences and bugs etc etc...
>

The "platform" ceases to be Windows/Linux/Mac, ceases to be Qt/GTK/Tk,
and instead becomes Webkit/Gecko/Trident. It's still not perfectly
cross-platform. (Although the recent ones are tending to comply with
the standards better than during the old IE vs Netscape browser wars.)

ChrisA