HTML5 deployment: progress comes into sight

[Dan Brown]

A bit OT but there's an interesting discussion here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14458648 on the merits of WebAssembly
vs JavaScript for in browser applications. As WebAssembly matures it will
be interesting to see what implications (if any) it has for livecode html5
i.e. will it ultimately become a better fit


On 2 Jun 2017 3:08 am, "Andre Garzia via use-livecode" <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> What I believe BR was referring to is that we can expose LC handlers to the
> local JS context of a browser widget thus enabling liveCode.* calls. What
> would be good, was to have functions (synchronous ones for the sake of
> complexity) exposed as well so that calling a liveCode.* function from JS
> on a browser widget not only would trigger the function but also return the
> results.
>
> Right now, we need to play musical chairs where JS calls a liveCode.*
> handler, which doesn't return anything but executes, then the said handler
> execute something in the JS context which is essentially a callback thus
> forcing every call into an async call. I know pretty well how async JS
> world is but even if we could simply have synchronous functional calls
> there it would be awesome and open a whole new world to customized
> experiences.
>
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > On 06/01/2017 04:59 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote:
> >
> > Why not check for CopySpecial() if the object is a widget before passing
> >> to the owner? It makes more sense that the library handler a widget
> exports
> >> is part of the message path. That way we can dispatch to the instance
> and
> >> the instance can overload/override it if they want necessary.
> >>
> >
> > +1. I like the way you think.
> >
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