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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
    <title>Pyjs</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="assets/main.css"/>
</head>

<body>
<div id="menu">
    <div id="logo"><a href="./" title="Pyjs!"><img src="assets/images/pyjs.128x128.png" alt="Pyjs Logo" /></a></div>

<ul class="simple">
<li class="section">About</li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="About.html">About</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="Overview.html">Overview</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="Features.html">Features</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="Translator.html">Translator</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="Download.html">Download</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="GettingHelp.html">Getting Help</a></li>
<li class="section">Documentation</li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="examples">Examples</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="UIHierarchy.html">UI Hierarchy</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="api">API Docs</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="book/Bookreader.html">Book</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/pyjs/pyjs/wiki">Wiki</a></li>
<li class="section">Development</li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="Developing.html">Develop</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="Deploy.html">Deploy</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="Optimize.html">Optimize</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="Contribute.html">Contribute</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="Roadmap.html">Roadmap</a></li>
<li class="section">Deprecated</li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li>
</ul>

</div>
<div id="body">
<h1 class="title">Features</h1>
<p>This is a list of the overall Pyjs features, including the
python-to-javascript translator as well as the UI Widget Set.
For specific language features supported by the Python-to-JavaScript
translator, see the <a class="reference external" href="Translator.html">translator description</a>.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Dynamic and reusable UI components: programmers can use
pre-designed classes to implement otherwise time-consuming
dynamic behaviors, such as drag-and-drop or sophisticated visual
tree structures.</li>
<li>Supports basic python types, emulated in JavaScript, such as List,
Dictionary, Tuple, string; many of the standard python built-in
functions, such as map, filter, range; and some of the standard
python Exceptions are supported.</li>
<li>Declarative style of &quot;desktop&quot; widget programming (almost identical to
python-qt4, python-gtk2 and python-wxWidgets), yet the applications
are compiled to javascript and run in all major web browsers.</li>
<li>Simple RPC mechanism</li>
<li>Browser history management, covering &quot;Back&quot;, &quot;Forward&quot; with no hassle
for the developer.  AJAX applications typically break the &quot;Go Back&quot;
button: use the History module to provide your application with
History management.</li>
<li>Run-time Support for runtime errors: a function call stack can be kept
in debug mode, and displayed when a runtime error occurs.  This is
incredibly useful in situations where installing a JavaScript debugger
is inconvenient or impossible.</li>
<li>Pyjs handles all cross-browser issues for the developer.</li>
<li>The developers can mix handwritten JavaScript in the Python source code,
including plumbing in to other Javascript frameworks and libraries.</li>
<li>Beginnings of support for using Google APIs in GWT applications
(initially, support for Google Gears Database)</li>
<li>Pyjs is entirely Free Software.</li>
<li>The developers can design and develop their application in a pure
object-oriented fashion, since they're using Python (instead of
JavaScript).</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>