oBrowser -- Is there a demand for this?

[Bastiaan Olij]

Hey Kelly,

Very cool mate!

That said, I do similar things in Omnis :P

I do think HTML with a bit of Javascript is a more powerful tool for
displaying complex data then Omnis is. Well at this point in time.

I don't know enough about the optimizations the guys in the UK have been
doing lately. Last time I talked about this with Bob (W) at EurOmnis he
let slip that part of the focus of the 6.2/8.x rewrite was to optimize
some of the internal core of Omnis. If that means faster
creation/destruction of subwindows and better performance in redrawing
the contents on the screen especially when there are many subwindows on
the screen, then that balance may tip in Omnis' favor again.

I like the look of your app btw!

Cheers,

Bas

On 13/03/2017 7:08 PM, Kelly Burgess wrote:
>> I’d like to ask the list if oBrowser is in use
> Working on it.  Don't read too much into any of this, it's quite full of placeholders at the moment . . .
>
> This htmlcontrol lets me display phone numbers, emails and physical addresses in a single scrolling space, with expand/collapse buttons so I can show just the first one or reveal all the phone numbers, and everything else just pushes down and makes room.  Much more flexible than a complex grid object, since each row doesn't need to be the same height.  The mailto link behavior comes along for free with the proper markup, and those copy/edit/delete buttons only appear when you hover over their context space.  An add button appears when you hover over the categories.
>
>      http://www.kellyb.com/htmlControls/elasticGrids.png
>
> This htmlcontrol lets me produce a 3-D list, where I can expand a line and allow drilling down into many different related details.  Here I've expanded lines 3 and 5.
>
>      http://www.kellyb.com/htmlControls/3dList.png
>
> I think this is a great tool. One of the hover buttons for addresses will open another window with a google map of the address.  Not needing to leave Omnis to show web pages is a real step forward.
>
> Kelly
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