I have posted a message about the campaign "bring HTML5 to LiveCode" on the forum of the French site "01net" (forum: Logiciels/developpement) http://www.01net.com/
Jacques 2014-07-02 18:59 GMT+02:00 Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Mark Wilcox <m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk> > wrote: > > > It's running in the browser, with the LiveCode engine compiled to > > JavaScript. Compiling SQLite to JavaScript and running it locally in the > > browser is not a great option - how will you reliably persist the data > > and keep decent performance? Not that there aren't JavaScript based DB > > solutions that use local file storage. > > > > Actually, all I need is the in-memory db, and for a fairly small database > at that. Performancewise, however, I need that data locally. Changing one > item can result in the need to reference dozens of others to recalculate, > its dependent values. > > > > > > > > Sadly the web standards folks messed up here. Web SQL was effectively > > killed because Mozilla and Microsoft refused to implement it. IndexedDB > > looks like the option that everyone eventually agreed on but it's not > > implemented everywhere yet. I suspect it will be fairly widespread by > > the time the HTML5 deployment option is complete though... > > > > I don't need any *particular* database, but I do need to be able to use > revDataFromQuery(). I initially implented value storage with my getVal() > and setVal() to use an array, but there are too many different ways I > access particular data types; to use anything other than a (light) database > means custom loops through everything for each type of "WHERE" that I use. > If there were an array type that could access the same data from different > independent indices, that *could* work, but I think we'd call that array a > "database" :) > > As things get set and calculated and changed, a db row gives me a nice way > to access by any of these. Without it, I'd have to manually set everything > in additional arrays just to keep track of things, which is an army of bugs > waiting to be sprayed . . . > > Also, my db need is *very* simple. I use a few UNION just to turn things > into a single access, and some compound WHERE, but no JOIN, related tables, > and whatnot. > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Jacques Clavel _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
