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These are the basic steps for building your first PEB-based application:
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***1.** Write your local HTML file(s) that will serve as a GUI for your application.
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Use your favorite WYSIWIG editor or code by hand including your favorite libraries or frameworks. PEB supports both HTML 4 & 5, although not all HTML 5 features are supported.
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***1.1.** If your users will have to enter data manually, don't forget to make an appropriate HTML form for them.
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***1.1.** If your users will have to enter data manually, don't forget to make appropriate HTML forms for them.
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***1.2.** If your users will have to open files or folders, see section [Special URLs for Users](#special-urls-for-users) for information on how to open local files and folders from PEB. You may also see the ```filesystem.html``` file in the demo package shipped with PEB.
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***1.3.** Connect your local HTML file(s) to your Perl 5 scripts. This is best explained in section [Calling User Perl Scripts](#calling-user-perl-scripts).
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***2.** Write your Perl scripts.
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## Design Objectives
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***1. Fast and easy graphical user interface for Perl 5 desktop applications:**
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use Perl 5, JavaScript, HTML 5 and CSS to create beautiful desktop applications
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use Perl 5, JavaScript, HTML and CSS to create beautiful desktop applications
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***2. Zero installation:**
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run from any folder
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**Usability:**
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* Perl 5 scripts can be fed from HTML forms using direct GET and POST or AJAX requests to a built-in pseudo-domain.
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* Output from long running Perl 5 scripts can be seamlessly inserted into the HTML DOM of the calling local page.
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* Linux superuser Perl scripts can be started.
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* Any version of Perl 5 can be used.
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* PEB can be started from any folder.
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* PEB is useful for both single-page or multi-page applications.
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PEB can also use any Perl on PATH.
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## Calling User Perl Scripts
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PEB recognizes two types of local user-level Perl scripts: **long running scripts** and **AJAX scripts**.
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PEB recognizes two main types of local user-level Perl scripts: **long running scripts** and **AJAX scripts**.
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There is no timeout for all Perl scripts executed by PEB.
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***Types of long running Perl scripts:**
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***Subtypes of long running Perl scripts:**
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**1. page-producing scripts:**
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They produce complete HTML pages and no special settings are necessary when they are called from a local page. There can be multiple chunks of output from such a script - PEB accumulates them all and displays everything when the script is finished.
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