HTML5 product

Peter TB Brett peter.brett at livecode.com
Thu Nov 5 14:50:49 EST 2015



On 05/11/2015 18:36, jbv at souslelogo.com wrote:
>
>> HTML5 support in community and commercial is identical, except that you
>> can't make closed-source apps with the community edition.
>
> just curious, what does that mean exactly ?
> does the " closed-source apps" thing concern only regular standalones, or
> does it also concern the HTML5 code with js obfuscation ?

The "HTML5 standalone" is actually 4 files:

* An HTML page

* The LiveCode engine, compiled to a (large) JavaScript file.  This is 
the same for every standalone created with a particular version of LiveCode

* A special ".html.mem" file that's used for engine initialisation. 
This is also the same for every standalone.

* A zip file, which contains the stacks, resources, fonts, etc. that 
make up your app.  This is the thing that's made by the standalone builder.

If you use the community edition, the zip file with your app in it can 
be downloaded by anyone who views the web page.  They can open it and 
play around with your app using the LiveCode IDE.

If you use the commercial edition, you have the option of encrypting 
your LiveCode stack files so that no-one can look at your code, even if 
they download and unpack the standalone's zip file.

                                    Peter


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Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
LiveCode Open Source Team




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