Matt Maier wrote: > Oh. So, when you use Livecode to put "Hello world" into the browser, > is it actually sending the browser something like <p>Hello world</p> > from the server?
Yep. That's the secret charm of web development: HTML defines what's in a page, CSS defines how it looks, JavaScript defines how you can interact with it - and all three are just plain text.
"View Page Source" is the greatest feature ever, and every browser has it. With that and a little time, even the coolest web sites become demystified.
With a text processing toolkit like LiveCode's chunk expressions, coupled with everything else it does from image manipulation to socket handling and more, the range of ways LiveCode can contribute to web development is limited only by the imagination.
You can generate pages locally and upload 'em securely and efficiently with rsync, or use a server-side CGI to accept input from the user to fill in custom templates with merge, or create custom images from user input, or access databases, or mashup content from multiple web sources, or index chunks of the Internet, or build intranet resources for your organization, or admin all your servers from one place, or make a dashboard for your boss, or monitor forum activity, or write a blog, or sync content between your phone and laptop, or....
And if you use LiveCode for the client also, you can multiply the number of things you can do over HTTP by at least two, and get them done in a fraction of the time. :)
-- 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
