Todd Fabacher wrote: > I was just checking, I don't see a way to make an HTTP post back to a > web server. Am I wrong? If it is not there...is it in the pipeline? > > I have a HUGE project that we are planning to do in Angular JS, but > would love to do in LiveCode HTML5.
LiveCode's post command will handle this with beautiful ease on all platforms - except HTML5.
The current build of the HTML5 export is unfortunately an island at the moment. It does a pretty good job of bringing a stack into a browser, but does not yet have connectivity with the outside world via sockets, such as would be needed for HTTP.
For LC-built native apps this isn't a problem, of course. And I believe at least half of the use cases in which people think they need to constrain their app within the confines of a browser could be more than adequately handled with native app implementations, mobile and desktop alike.
That said, there are some use cases that do require running inside of a browser, and at the moment those have no means of using the browser's inherent connectivity.
I believe this is being worked on now, but I don't have a timeline for that delivery.
In the meantime, if the ever-growing ubiquity of native apps still doesn't make them compelling enough to consider, even with the increasingly popular hybrid model using an embedded browser within a native app, another option is to use LC's wonderful layout capabilities to generated HTML/CSS, though that still leaves interactivity to be hand-translated to JavaScript.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ 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
