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From
15/10/2020 22:15:04
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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15/10/2020 20:52:27
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01676408
Message ID:
01676680
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59
>>It'd be a job. I'm not sure about HTML5 specs. You could probably get 70% there in a couple man-weeks. 90% in a couple man-months. And 100% in a man-year or more as it's the last details that are the hardest in these things. It took me probably five days to implement as much of what I called SHTML (Simple HTML) in my own product that I was intimately familiar with as I did. It required a specific stack design, the ability to unwind arbitrarily if you encountered mismatched tags, etc. It was a bit of work. It would require an advanced developer to do right.

You wouldn't write the actual visual display that already exists for every platform, which is my point: if you can morph (say) a scx into really good HTML5/Bootstrap/whatever with events hooked up into the underlying code, that can display on any device. FoxInCloud already does that from a server, converting VFP forms into HTML5 with Ajax or similar calls back to the server for event functionality; I'm imagining a cut-down native compiled app on the device itself, using the device's own HTML5 engine to actually display stuff. Maybe the FiC guys and Chuanbing can work together on that, I'll suggest it.

>>I would work with Chuanbing on Visual FreePro, Jr. He's an excellent developer.

That's kind of you and who knows, maybe Chuanbing and his growing list of customers would be delighted to see him distracted from his successful product to assist in yours. Alternatively, perhaps people would prefer that "working together" means your helping him make VFP C++ Compiler even better. Happy to leave it there.

BTW, I hope to revisit Indianapolis once all this COVID quarantine and the rest is settled. Great town you have there and I have very happy memories of escaping dreary winters to enjoy blazing Indy summers with fireflies and other stuff you take for granted.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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