Xojo web browser6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Your default browser fires up and the website is shown, as designed in the editor. Xojo has no live code swapping so this is something you have to do even for a minor change, like changing the color of a label. Time to hit the run button! Because you always have to compile a Xojo app every time you want to test the result, this can take take quite some time if you are working on a big project. Really feels like a missed opportunity to come up with something truly innovative. This is the most widely used system in nowadays responsive web design and as Bootstrap (the CSS framework that is behind Xojo Web) was one of the pioneers of this system, they must have come up with something special, no? Well, for the love of God, I could not find it! After some digging in the forum, it looks like they picked flex and it is currently only available on a WebContainer. I was especially interested in how they tackled the 12-columns system in a WYSIWYG designer. This could’ve easily just been a property of one input component. Same goes for the inputs (normal, password, email, number, phone and url) which are in HTML just one input tag, with a different type attribute. For example there are three buttons (OK, Cancel, Standard), which are exactly the same HTML component, except some very basic styling. There aren’t that to many to pick from and I couldn’t help but thinking they had to split up controls just to fill the library. On the right are the controls one knows from the desktop framework. ![]() ![]() I guess I was actually expecting to see the real deal, but no biggie. First thing one sees is some kind of mock-up browser. I fired up de tool and picked a Web Example: WebGrid Container. So given the development time span, they must have come up something extra ordinary. An overhaul was long overdue and as I recall, a first peek was given at XDC2017. released their first version of Web 2.0, a framework to create WebApps to replace their old one. ![]()
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