HTML 5 out of isolation...

John Dixon dixonja at hotmail.co.uk
Mon May 16 07:24:24 EDT 2016


Mmm... 

Peter Brett wrote...
 It's unlikely that you'll be able to connect an LiveCode HTML5 app to a MySQL server in the foreseeable future

Will it though be possible to send to an .lc script and then have the .lc script send the query to the database, returning the data to the stack running in the browser ?



> Subject: Re: HTML 5 out of isolation...
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> From: peter.brett at livecode.com
> Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 12:07:15 +0100
> 
> 
> 
> On 16/05/2016 11:53, John Dixon wrote:
> > It was in the latest webinar, I think.. it was mentioned that
> > database connectivity will be coming to HTML5, but rather than
> > guess... Is it possible to know when this will actually arrive..
> >
> > It would be nice to know in which quarter of the year, if its
> > introduction can't be nailed doen to a particular month ...:-)
> 
> Database connectivity in the way that "normal" LiveCode apps have 
> _can't_ be provided on the HTML5 platform because JavaScript apps can't 
> open raw sockets.  It's unlikely that you'll be able to connect an 
> LiveCode HTML5 app to a MySQL server in the foreseeable future, for example.
> 
> In the future, the plan involves improving the networking and URL 
> operations available in HTML5 standalones to allow you to use REST APIs 
> to persist data (e.g. using FireBase).  However, there's no current 
> schedule for doing this work, so I'm not able to answer your question.
> 
>                                               Peter
> 
> -- 
> Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
> LiveCode Open Source Team
> 
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