UI and frontend software design and consulting since 1991
Last week I’ve published Sciter.Notes 2.0 – pretty much direct port of my Notes application that was using old Sciter.TIS. This time it is implemented with new Sciter and JavaScript. Foreword, what is the Notes? Sciter.Notes is a personal notes and documents manager with the following features: Porting Notes from SciterTIS to Sciter TIS (TIScript)…
Somewhere this week Sciter SVN got revision #10,000 of sources. Revision No. 1 was dated December 14, 2010 – that was first revision when Sciter departed from initial HTMLayout source tree. HTMLayout was pure HTML/CSS renderer that worked on Windows only and used GDI for rendering. That one existed since 2004. Overall, that’s quite an…
FCC, what is it? FreeConferenceCall is an online conferencing/meeting platform with the following characteristics: Online conferences with several presenters and up to 1000 participants/attendees. Participants can attend the conference from desktop computer, mobile, web browser, and just by phone. Video meeting supports up to 25 simultaneous video/audio streams running. It can be more participants with…
Without too much fanfares Sciter has officially transitioned from TIScript to JavaScript this week. To be precise, there are two Sciter’s at the moment: Sciter.TIS and Sciter.JS. It is just from now and on Sciter is a synonym of Sciter.JS. And so Sciter.JS is the official, mainstream version. But Sciter.TIS is still supported and maintained…
module storage unifies QuickJS of Fabrice the Magnificent with DyBase engine of Konstantin the Great. The module provides built-in data persistence – transparent data storage and retrieval using standard JavaScript means. Think about it as of MongoDB built into the language without need of special clients, etc. Finally we can work with objects stored in…
Sciter.JS is a “reformulation” of Sciter that uses JavaScript (ES6 specification) instead of my TIScript. Sciter.JS uses QuickJS++ – my version of Fabrice Bellard’s original QuickJS. General directions of Sciter.JS: Keep binary small – 5 Mb max. That is mission critical for the embeddable engine. Implement basic set of JS API (DOM and runtime) that…
Sciter’s Quark is officially published: https://quark.sciter.com/ Quark takes a folder with HTML/CSS/script/image resources and produces monolithic executable ready to run “as it is”: Quark is an application compiled by itself. Application produced by the Quark is a bundle that contains Sciter Engine and custom resources that describe UI and logic of the application. Therefore minimal…
Somewhen this week the Sciter SDK repository on GitHub got its 1000th star. So Sciter is in the club of 1k decorated projects: Thanks everybody 🙂
Major CSS implementation refactoring is happening in Sciter for 4.4.2.xx at the moment. Original CSS implementation architecture in H-SMILE core was established 14 years ago when CSS contained just handful of properties. Currently there are more than 300 of them defined in W3C spec and counting. My initial optimistic implementation was relied on hypothesis that…
With the introduction of Sciter.Lite in v 4.4.0.2 the engine becomes an universal UI solution that covers: all active desktop OSes: Windows, MacOS, Linux, BSD, etc. mobile devices: Android, iOS, potentially on Tizen, and others that will come up; any embeddable device, like IoT or automotive display panels, that has graphical display attached; game alike…
