UI and frontend software design and consulting since 1991
This holiday season robot Vasilii was pretending to be a Christmas Light. To reduce pollution it plays lights animation only when it detects human at its proximity using its PIR motion sensor.
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…
Those famous “nightly builds”… Not a secret that compilation/build times are somehow critical for projects of Sciter’s scale. The fact: it takes from 4 to 6 hours to build Chrome/Chromium browser. And note – that is on dedicated build servers / farms, not on your work machine. So devops, as a desperate move, are forced to…
(that is continuation of my previous article about Vasilii the Robot ) Not too much progress actually as I am busy with Sciter. Behavior of the robot is still quite basic as you see: But at this stage I have finalized its on board framework with my async.hpp library – header only await/async primitives. async.hpp…
Consider this style definition: Note that box-sizing property above. It instructs the browser that outer edge of border box of the element should have 400x400px dimensions. But that is not so in all major browsers even all of them support box-sizing property. Here is the demo of the problem that you can try in your…
This month I was designing Chat module implementation. That is Skype, WhatsApp, Slack, etc. alike thing. Implementation is pretty simple and so greatly customizable. Let me know if you will need anything close to it.
I’d like to transform Sciter Engine project to Open Source eventually. As for me Open Source is a great responsibility and to make Sciter Open Source requires significant amount of work – code needs to be commented thoroughly, overall source architecture to be documented, source code restructured. Yet I need to make it compliable by…
I think the image above looks familiar to people working around stock exchange. The screen contains many areas that are updated in real time so it is interesting to try to implement this using Sciter and its rendering pipelines. So I’ve made simple mockup of typical screen used there, in particular that scrollable list with…
Electron As we know Electron.js is built of Chromium and Node.js. Where Chromium is a full scale Web browser that even uses its own, independent JavaScript engine. Therefore each Electron.js application is essentially a separate Web browser and Web server installed on your machine – as many Electron applications you are running – as many…
10 years ago we, at W3C-style WG mail list, started discussion of giving CSS at least some flexibility. That was the time of semantic Web battles that showed up in “don’t use <table> for layout purposes” witch-hunt among others. The problem was that CSS did not offer any option to vertically align stuff inside browser…
