Larry wrote:
it will be easier to deal with those differences by just developing apps
that run within a browser. Because don't both Android and iOS both run
browsers?
Absolutely.
If your application’s features can be achieved as a web app running in a
browser, that will be the most
Larry wrote:
I am of the opinion that all of the platform/device specific approach to
software is going the way of the dinosaur.
That may be true with desktop software, but I respectfully disagree when it
comes to mobile.
There’s ever-growing fragmentation on Android, sometimes the
Hi Jim,
I'm not trying to argue (don't know enough.) But what you say below (I put in
italics) seems only to underscore what I believe: that it will be easier to
deal with those differences by just developing apps that run within a browser.
Because don't both Android and iOS both run browsers?
Jim Lambert wrote:
Larry wrote:
I am of the opinion that all of the platform/device specific
approach to software is going the way of the dinosaur.
That may be true with desktop software, but I respectfully disagree
when it comes to mobile.
There’s ever-growing fragmentation on Android,
That sounds like what Sun said when they released Java! And look what happened.
Bob S
On Oct 16, 2014, at 10:32 , Jim Lambert
j...@netrin.commailto:j...@netrin.com wrote:
I am of the opinion that all of the platform/device specific approach to
software is going the way of the dinosaur.
Hi John,
I'm on board with all of that!
Even though the LC community is relatively small, I agree 100% with you that
a lot of people would start writing shared code that would greatly improve
the LC IDE. AND if LC did that, it would start attracting a lot more
programmers.
I am of the opinion
JB wrote:
There are many powerful tools in foundation. I am not
sure how difficult it would be but it would be a great if
instead of making a few really good changes to LiveCode
with foundation and GCD etc that they opened the doors
so anyone could access the tools in foundation from the
On October 15, 2014 5:25:55 AM CDT, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
I'm working with a guy right now who is taking my clunky LC Windows
prototype and rewriting it so that it will run in any browser. He
tells me
that he can code it so that the program automatically detects the
screen
size
This is FANTASTIC!
John Balgenorth
On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote:
JB wrote:
There are many powerful tools in foundation. I am not
sure how difficult it would be but it would be a great if
instead of making a few really good changes to
