Web-based GUI for GRASS GIS

Here should go an detailed and systematic description of possible implementations of web-based GUI for GRASS GIS as discussed for GSoC 2014.

GTK+ Broadway

Starts its own graphical session which instead of rendering on screen (as X server would do) renders HTML5.

Pros:

• No need to write any GUI code, so there is no duplication and no additional maintenance

Cons:

• Not (yet?) available for wxPython (done for GTK+, works with wxWidgets)
• Not possible to include web technologies (WebGL), tools (e.g. IPython Notebook) and JS libraries (d3)
• 3D view (nviz) in GUI will not work (G7:m.nviz.image might)

Others:

• Still needs file management to be implemented.

Links:

rollapp.com

Cons:

• Although it uses free and open source, the solution itself is proprietary (which completely disqualifies it here)