HTML 5 out of isolation...

[Kevin Miller]

Yes - that's what Peter means by a REST API (one way to do it anyway).

Kind regards,

Kevin

Kevin Miller ~ kevin at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps




On 16/05/2016, 12:24, "use-livecode on behalf of John Dixon"
<use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of dixonja at hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:

>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
>> 
>> LiveCode 2016 Conference: https://livecode.com/edinburgh-2016/
>> 
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