UI and frontend software design and consulting since 1991
Last year it was a jubilee of my BlockNote editor – it is 10 years old now. Quite a serious age for software product I think. BlockNote, in particular its HTML WYSIWYG editing engine, was the very first version of H-SMILE core that works now inside the Sciter. H-SMILE core was used in other software…
From the very beginning Sciter supported declarative scripting class assignment to DOM elements. If you want all div.some-widget elements in your document to behave in some special way (be subclassed) then you will need: 1. in script to declare class SomeWidget : Behavior { function attached() { … } // called with ‘this’ set to…
They say that skeuomorphism in UIs is bad but that flat thing that they came up with instead is actually even worse. Most of the time it gives no visual clue to the user. There are two “Trim”s here: one is clickable button, another one is static label… It is not a UI anymore –…
We are using URLs these days quite a lot, but not all of us understand what they actually are. By this post I will try to explain their structure and how Sciter/HTMLayout deals with them. Please note that this is sort of informal explanation and I am using term “URL” here while “URI” is more…
Adding basic <video> support to Sciter. The <video> element (behavior:video in fact) is rendered windowlessly as normal DOM element so can participate in animations, transforms and to have other DOM element rendered on it. Here is a screenshot of Sciter made when it is playing video (standard 30 fps rate) under animation and transformation on…