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by c-smile 8y ago
Object literals to allow `-` in identifiers, so these are valid constructs: var style = { font-size: 10px, border-width: 1em } New built-in value types: Length, Duration, Angle, Color. So these are valid construc
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by c-smile 8y ago
Here are things that I've added in Sciter's script ( https://sciter.com ): 'like' operator that is used as a match if( obj like /[A-Z]/g ) … // "string".match if( obj lik
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by c-smile 8y ago
This "to show that your life is good and you can afford to buy food and entertainment" is very far from the truth.
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by c-smile 8y ago
Internally this was precisely Mother's day. As 23rd of February, "defender of the Fatherland Day" was Father's day as all us, men, were liable for military service. I am for example Lieutenant-reserve of USSR's Stra
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by c-smile 8y ago
USSR was a state-wide-corporation, and society model was state capitalism. Just one big corporation where government is just a board of directors really. Same is China now. In fact as larger US company as more of those stuff from USSR in it
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by c-smile 8y ago
Even in Soviet Union no one would bother to print post cards that no one will buy. So these are of popular demand at that time.
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by c-smile 8y ago
Here is collection of Soviet post cards for International Women's Day celebrated in USSR as Mother's day. https://kulturologia.ru/blogs/080315/23587/ https://swalker.org/other/1
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by c-smile 8y ago
`this` is just an environment parameter in JS and must be treated as such. Any function call in JS is a short form of this: func.call(its_this,arg0,arg1) In the same way as arguments at call site are passed through named parameters
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by c-smile 8y ago
Or my html-notepad ( https://html-notepad.com ) if you prefer to use better WYSIWYG. Markdown is "a poor man WYSIWIG" anyway. Especially if you need tables there or paste images from clipboard. Or just use https:/&
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by c-smile 8y ago
Yes, I've created initial version of the engine first. In may case the need of having embeddable HTML engine was well known - people were trying to embed IE quite frequently. Even Microsoft itself was trying to put it everywhere the
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by c-smile 8y ago
I am solo founder and developer of Sciter Engine : https://sciter.com The project got first customers in 2005 so it is afloat 13 years so far. Until 2014 it was a side project. Since then I am working on it full time as a solo f
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by c-smile 8y ago
> but you can essentially use it that way "Essentially" is a nice word. You can use it for example as JavaScript is a programming language, essentially, yeah. W3C DOM was defined initially in terms of Java interfaces. Where we
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by c-smile 8y ago
JavaScript was designed to be a glue language - to connect output of one native function with input of other native function. And do all of this in UI event handlers. And it was almost perfect (modulo hoisting, semicolon omission) for that.
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by c-smile 8y ago
I've architected Web Application that runs as in a) connected as in b) occasionally disconnected mode (LocalStorage + sync when online). For #b SPA is the only option.
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by c-smile 8y ago
Sciter Notes: https://notes.sciter.com That if you mean something like this: http://notes.sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/notes-dra... Works with any browser, no plugins required.
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by c-smile 8y ago
Interesting. As a part of Sciter.Node( https://terrainformatica.com/2018/12/23/sciternode-versus-el... ) project I was thinking about "flagship demonstrator" project for it. One of ideas is to create
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by c-smile 8y ago
Why do we need open source at all then?
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by c-smile 8y ago
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: OK Willing to relocate: yes. "UI in all its incarnations". I am an author of Sciter ( https://sciter.com ) - embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine. It works on Windows, Mac, Linu
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by c-smile 8y ago
Sciter was used in production 1 year before WPF appearance: https://sciter.com/sciter/sciter-vs-wpf/
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by c-smile 8y ago
> still far away from standardization. Sciter uses this feature almost 10 years. All these 10 years we have libraries of reusable components and so no need for React. Same is about flexbox and grid: https://terrainformatica.co
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by c-smile 8y ago
> innovation of the Virtual DOM Virtual DOM is rather a desperate move - to support components life time constructor/destructor events componentWill/DidMount / Unmount. What if you will be able to define in standard HTML&#
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by c-smile 8y ago
Not exactly. I am building HTML-NOTEPAD ( https://html-notepad.com ) from the same sources ( https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/tree/master/notepad ) for all desktop platforms. It uses scit
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by c-smile 8y ago
Check https://terrainformatica.com/2018/12/23/sciternode-versus-el... and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746408 In principle that is doable. Not sure about 100% compatibil
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by c-smile 8y ago
Sciter supports print and print preview out of the box: https://terrainformatica.com/2015/05/25/sciter3-print-previe... As of PDF generation: Skia backend is capable of PDF generation but that functionality i
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by c-smile 8y ago
Check Typora Markdown editor: https://typora.io/ - it is a markdown editor made with Electron. It has as sort of WYSIWYG editor as markdown source editing so it is conceptually close to html-notepad. All basic ratios are th
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by c-smile 8y ago
Check this sample : https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/tree/master/samples/id... in SDKs sciter.exe. That is tray notification. As of menu: sdk/samples/menu
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by c-smile 8y ago
That's true. Better is to compare https://html-notepad.com application. It's size is even smaller as it does not include V8. I mean that Visual Code has way more scripts to support different languages but these are tex
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by c-smile 8y ago
Sciter's API is already simple enough. It is about 10..20 pure C functions that you will use for creating window, loading UI resources and receiving callbacks from the UI. Check minimal integration sample: https://github.com
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by c-smile 8y ago
Sciter's author here... I am thinking of making Sciter as UI module for NodeJs. 1. Strip down version of Sciter - only HTML/CSS/Graphics modules. It will use JavaScript of NodeJs (either V8 or Chackra). 2. That version will b
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