UI and frontend software design and consulting since 1991
Various JavaScript frameworks provide data binding facilities (Knockout, AngularJS, etc.) these days. They are based on kind-of-MVC concept: you have some data (structure, model), view rendering that data in html and some code in between that commonly named as controllers. How successful/convenient those frameworks are subject of separate topic. For me they are too intrusive…
HTML parser in Sciter v.3 supports attribute shortcuts allowing to write HTML in more compact form. Compare these two declarations that are identical (to the Sciter): Compact: <input|currency(itemPrice) value=1000> and standard: <input type=”currency” name=”itemPrice” value=1000> As you see the first one is slightly shorter and better readable (subjective of course). Here is full list of…
Sciter 3 is officially out. See its log file. On Windows Vista/7 it uses Direct2D backend On Windows XP it uses GDI+ backend Known issue on Windows XP: rendering of linear and radial gradients is different from Direct2D backend as GDI+ has no notion of “open gradients”. I’ll fix it a bit later. You shall…