I am tired of mvc web frameworks, so for fun I am looking at minimal ways of making interactive web pages. I remembered CGI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface and I think it is sort of refreshing.
I have some Tiger Tech websites, and noticed they support CGI. Essentially you can drag and drop a script and it reads from standard in and out to produce a webpage. I created intradrop with a single python script, that references the cgi package. https://docs.python.org/2/library/cgi.html
Intradrop is a toy webpage/wiki where every word entered in a grid of cells becomes a link you can click. Also, any text which ends in a semicolon is evaluated as javascript. It allows the creation of crude web programs. See the "songs" page for examples.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 14.1 ms ] threadI am tired of mvc web frameworks, so for fun I am looking at minimal ways of making interactive web pages. I remembered CGI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface and I think it is sort of refreshing.
I have some Tiger Tech websites, and noticed they support CGI. Essentially you can drag and drop a script and it reads from standard in and out to produce a webpage. I created intradrop with a single python script, that references the cgi package. https://docs.python.org/2/library/cgi.html
Intradrop is a toy webpage/wiki where every word entered in a grid of cells becomes a link you can click. Also, any text which ends in a semicolon is evaluated as javascript. It allows the creation of crude web programs. See the "songs" page for examples.