We're Funding LiveCode For the Web

[jacques CLAVEL]

I have posted a message about the campaign "bring HTML5 to LiveCode" on the
forum of the French site "01net" (forum: Logiciels/developpement)
http://www.01net.com/

Jacques


2014-07-02 18:59 GMT+02:00 Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Mark Wilcox <mark at sorcery-ltd.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > It's running in the browser, with the LiveCode engine compiled to
> > JavaScript. Compiling SQLite to JavaScript and running it locally in the
> > browser is not a great option - how will you reliably persist the data
> > and keep decent performance? Not that there aren't JavaScript based DB
> > solutions that use local file storage.
> >
>
> Actually, all I need is the in-memory db, and for a fairly small database
> at that.  Performancewise, however, I need that data locally.  Changing one
> item can result in the need to reference dozens of others to recalculate,
> its dependent values.
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Sadly the web standards folks messed up here. Web SQL was effectively
> > killed because Mozilla and Microsoft refused to implement it. IndexedDB
> > looks like the option that everyone eventually agreed on but it's not
> > implemented everywhere yet. I suspect it will be fairly widespread by
> > the time the HTML5 deployment option is complete though...
> >
>
> I don't need any *particular* database, but I do need to be able to use
> revDataFromQuery().  I initially implented value storage with my getVal()
> and setVal() to use an array, but there are too many different ways I
> access particular data types; to use anything other than a (light) database
> means custom loops through everything for each type of "WHERE" that I use.
> If there were an array type that could access the same data from different
> independent indices, that *could* work, but I think we'd call that array a
> "database" :)
>
> As things get set and calculated and changed, a db row gives me a nice way
> to access by any of these.  Without it, I'd have to manually set everything
> in additional arrays just to keep track of things, which is an army of bugs
> waiting to be sprayed . . .
>
> Also, my db need is *very* simple.  I use a few UNION just to turn things
> into a single access, and some compound WHERE, but no JOIN, related tables,
> and whatnot.
> --
> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
> (702) 508-8462
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Jacques Clavel