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There's this http://www.unigui.com make all your web apps in Delphi :-), they've been in beta for a long time but seems to work.

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Good find. Some opinions:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3649969/what-do-you-think...

it has some negatives imho:

No source for bits of it which makes it risky since it seems there's only one guy developing it.

Looking at it's comms it seems pretty lightweight, though it does generate a lot of messages.

Last time I looked the Sencha library it used was fairly old

That said if you've got a low-medium weight web app you want to build and don't care if it looks like windows, then it's dead easy (really 1 day or so, it's that easy).

VirtualUI is another interesting way to have a remote web interface to a Win32 Delphi app. Not necessarily scalable to a large number of users but a nice option if it fits your requirements:

http://www.cybelesoft.com/Thinfinity/VirtualUI/

Looked at this a while ago and it had some problem, though can't remember what it was...

Edit: maybe it was per seat licensing? - client didn't want that

The release candidate works great however what ultimately turned us away from this product was the fact that they only offer source code for the client components, you don't actually ever get to see the source code for the server, which is a big nono.

that's impressive.

we need sometime like, for polymer one day?

Will polymer ever get done?

At every Google IO they presented it, and yet the overall native support of all required features without any kind of polyfills is still missing across all browsers.

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