On Wed, November 9, 2016 2:38 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote:
> IMHO Silverlight is dying because Java is the winner over C#, due to
> Android systems outselling any other OS architecture.
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> Hence WebASM - that seems to be based on Java - might be successful in
> pushing the idea of allo
On Wed, November 9, 2016 4:02 am, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote:
> On 09.11.2016 11:53, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
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>> WebAsm <> WebAssembly.
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>> WebAsm is "A processor for text-based documents (most notably, HTML)".
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>> WebAssembly is a subset of JavaScript with some add
On Wed, November 9, 2016 3:07 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
> On 2016-11-09 04:43, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
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>> One issue, back in the day, was that you could only use Java
>> programming language, right?
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> Hence the name "Java Applet" ;-)
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But, could one compile fpc code to jav
On Wed, November 9, 2016 3:10 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
> On 2016-11-09 05:13, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
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>> I find the documentation, for example, for
>> Total Commander, to just be a little bit too Windows 3.1 looking.
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> I'll bet you a 6-pack of beer that the documentation was
On Wed, November 9, 2016 7:57 am, Marco van de Voort via Lazarus wrote:
> The frequent updates that often break interfaces are also an headache.
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This is what happened to firefox: xul runner's current state is
broken/unknown/scary. I hope the same doesn't happen to chromium.
Cef1 has some incompa
>>> The best reason to have some local (whatever how limited) widget is
>>> for IDE popups of helptext instead of an external browser.
External browser requires alt-tabbing away from the ide which is a pain. A
external browser cannot be communicated with once you open the html file.
with a local w
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:40:03 -0700
Lars via Lazarus wrote:
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> I thought the idea of web assembly was not to compile to javascript, but
> to compile to byte code..
Yes, Javascript compatible bytecode. Keep in mind that the vendors are
still experimenting. So it is not yet clear when it will
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:11:46 -0700
Lars via Lazarus wrote:
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> It's amazing someone hasn't thought of a web server that works off line,
> that uses no ports, and just runs as some kind of plain Exe not using any
> http port... Not sure if this is an absurd idea (actually, that's kind of
> wh
