revweb support? HTML5 instead?

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Re: revweb support? HTML5 instead?

Post by FourthWorld » Wed Sep 18, 2013 7:56 am

LiveCode is a great tool for many things, but not for all things. I wouldn't write device drivers with it, or an office suite, and it's not a web authoring tool. It's great at what it does, but it doesn't pretend to replace every language under the sun. Computing is just too big for any language to pretend that.

If you need to make web sites, there's certainly no shortage of tools to do that. And since browsers all come with exactly one language for interactivity, JavaScript, we don't need to spend a lot of time choosing a language because it's not like we have any choice in the matter anyway. :)

I tend to use LC in many ways that support my web development, but I never expected it to be a web authoring tool; I mainly use it for making desktop and mobile apps, which it's quite good at, being designed for that job.

I use my web tools for web apps, I write my shell scripts in Bash, and I use GIMP to make graphics. Right tool for the right job.
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Re: revweb support? HTML5 instead?

Post by emdalton » Wed Jul 30, 2014 7:31 pm

Last day to support Livecode HTML5 fundraising... :D
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