HTML5 limitations?

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2017-07-26 00:43, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
> On 07/25/2017 01:43 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote:
>> The HTML5 standalone builder is still "experimental".
>> Has been "very experimental" until July 2017.
> 
> It's in process to becoming "beta".

My fault! I wasn't paying attention when Heather submitted that PR... 
I'm at FileMaker DevCon, and at the time was waiting for the Plugin 
Vendor's Meeting to start. I was distracted by that and the fact Heather 
had made her first PR... I read it - but didn't actually READ it (if 
that makes any sense)!

Had I actually READ it, I would have pointed out that we don't use the 
term 'beta' to describe any of our releases (*sometimes* as a marketing 
aid to encourage people to try it out, but only later on in a project's 
lifetime when RC's are looming large and certainly not at the 
engineering level).

Out model is that we do DP's until we are happy enough that it is ready 
to push to RC. (Up until today I'd have said it fits our agile dev 
process better, however I'm now wondering whether, with the much better 
processes we now have, we could revert to a more traditional release 
sequence - i.e. Alpha, Beta, Release Candidate - right now though, we 
have bigger fish to fry!).

Basically, we are pushing to get HTML5 into a 'minimum viable product 
version' by the end of the year. This means that we want as much 
functionality as we can get to work well and documenting what doesn't 
work clearly. Obviously, for it to be an MVP it has to be able to be 
usable by a reasonable range of existing projects (that people want to 
work in the web browser). This is somewhat 'wooly' right now, but will 
become less so over the next couple of months.

So, all we were trying to do was to say that 'we don't really consider 
this experimental anymore because we are now pushing really hard to make 
it a first class citizen alongside the other platforms'.

I'll patch the text more suitably when my brain is a little less fried 
from spending the day demoing LiveCode and LiveCodeForFM :)

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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Mark Waddingham ~ mark at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
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