JavaScript via the browser would be huge. There are tens of thousands of JavaScript libraries that could be used by livecoders to add bleeding edge UI elements & websockets to their applications via lc script. It would allow livecode to communicate with the real-time web without lcb ( which only a small percentage of the community are able to utilise)
On 31 May 2017 3:32 am, "Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > mark Waddington wrote: > > We've also been looking at how to abstract the FFI work we've done as > part of the Infinite LiveCode campaign to allow LCB to bind to > JavaScript > APIs (which will allow greater type fidelity than is possible using > 'do as javascript' from LCS). > > BR: > > I don't understand the above well enough to know if this is even related… > but the need has not gone away. At the risk of "going on and on again" > about this again. > > What I would find much more useful (may it is just me) is to get the > javascript of the html5 code running in a browser widget to be a "member in > good standing" of LC message hierarchy inside an LC build (not the other > way around) > > I can get any number of developers from around the planet to build any > kind of "HTML5" thing for our web site and it would run faster (no > emscripten download required), be better designed in the long run than some > "transform" of a Livecode stack to HTML5. > > At least in my universe, use cases for pushing LC apps to HTML5 in the > browser are very few. For us here, and I would think for a "legion" of > developers who are vested first in the LC app platform and html5 second, > what we need is for the run time, synchronous communications between the JS > in the browser widget and the LS message path. > > What I *really* want is to leverage the web kit graphics engine so that we > look at the HTML5 Canvas/JS like some kind of "media toolbox" for building > content. So, like Photoshop just offered today tutorials on building > animated gifs, which we can then obviously use in LC. Similarly I want > HTML5 "kids" working for me to build content that I can turn around and > then running inside Livecode with the LC scripts and the JS "talking to > each other" intelligently and in a timely way. (javascript calls a > function, LC hears this and returns the data, JS proceeds… even simple > things like someone does something in the browser widget… data is then > saved by the LC back end script to SqlLite Dbase and returns a "success" > like a kind of "dispatch" call from the JS to the LC scripts that wrap the > widget. > > Jonathan runs Google earth "for God sake" in a browser widget. Another > man on our team created an app using ionic/angular that is now on the > stores. Just for "kicks" I extract the core and it ran perfectly inside a > LC stack/Browser Widget. But… I can't get that to talk to LC… except with > the primitive calls we now have. > > then, for $35.00 someone who is a JS jockey can write some cool animation > in HYPE and and I can drop this into > > myapp > mainstack.livecode > /animations > /hype-html5-animation > > and run the latter inside the mainstack. > > We have discussed this at length before and HH and Jonathan are way ahead > of me on these initiatives. My query on the business channel resulted in > $7,000.00 price tag to get that job done, $13,000.00 if we wanted robust > error checking included. I realize to some of us here that may seem like a > lot, but I can respect the hours-to-get-it-done-must-be-covered > requirements. I had hope we might get a "kick starter" going with a number > of us kicking in some $ for this… I could probably get permission to spend > from our shoe string budgets: $1,500 at least… but no one else here > responded. So I guess My idea that others could use this was a "fantasy" ?? > > Does this relate at all to " LCB to bind to JavaScript APIs" ? > > Brahmanathaswami > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
