Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Well, they're working at it since 2000 or earlier, so this is not
something easy. And you'll need to rewrite your application anyway so
it works...
I don't like that idea....
on a web app (today) I have seen what look like what we know as multiple
windows that "popup", scrolling database lists...
what I am proposing is keep the lazarus app... but when compiled, runs
as a javascript app without rewriting it.
I thought we liked the way the current RAD environment works.... I do....
I just want that to make the same app inside a browser...
But please be realistic:
There is no way to port an application to the web by just recompiling.
It just can't be done. Think database access, file access etc.
I'm not so sure it cannot be done...
ok, let us look a bit more closely at those items....
- database - all web apps, ie perl + python can access the db. It isn't
significantly
different than what we have in fpc. What I mean by this is that they
use recordsets
and database classes just like what we do.
What is different is the rendering of the grids. They would be
rendered via javascript
instead of being rendered using the window manager api.
In regards to the database location, that just sits on the LAMP
server, and not
the "database" server as we know it. It is still the same database,
just more likely
to have a web server on it as well.
- file - files now sit on the web server in the appropriate data
directory. We
might have to change program paths. Something we are already doing in the
upgrade to vista.
If you want to work using the web, you must program for the web:
client/server. The browser is an extremely restricted environment.
Web Applications are starting to look really nice.
Dare I say better than the widget sets we have in windows.
So I believe we need to take Lazarus that way....
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