Ted,
Oops. Hit the send too fast! Yes, JSON is very popular. And Unicode. I attended a Web Development Meetup last night where the subject was Ember.js and the presenter gave a very good overview in two fact-packed hours. There was a lot to absorb. Just the buzzterms were dazzling. Ember is a spin-off of SproutCore and uses Handlebars as its templating language. It is MVC although the views are becoming less prominent with the introduction of HTML5 Web Components. Next version is targeted at ECMAScript6. Ember is trying to layer on an inheritance model more similar to Ruby than the Prototype model of JavaScript. Essentially, Ember provides a runtime for a full application written in Javascript running in the browser, a killer solution for mobile devices. Essentially, it has its own idea of a cursor engine (shades of VFP!) in the browser with asynchronous and/or delayed updating to an internet server, using Promises (http://promises-aplus.github.io/promises-spec/) to continue onward and manage callbacks, while the data goes up to potentially yet another MVC application written with the proper API and, sure enough, passing JSON back and forth 'tween the two. It was all a bit much. ----------------------------- Maybe I'm seeing this wrong, but I'm hoping I don't have to get involved with a whole bunch of technologies. I expect to use a rather simple interface (from VFP), using say Craig Boyd's JSON class in my wrapper. Again, maybe it's too simplistic, but I'm just looking for the ability to let the operator pick/change/formulate questions, submit, and read the answers Bill _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
