LiveCode 10 DP-5: Smaller, faster, richer

by Mark Waddingham on April 18, 2023 3 comments

I’m delighted to announce the release of LiveCode 10, dp-5.

Web Engine Size

This release includes the first iteration of the work we have been doing to reduce the download size of the web engine.

The (unicode related) data the engine needs to run has been split into three files – icu-core.dat, icu-iter.dat and icu-coll.dat.

The core data file is always downloaded, the engine will not run without it.

The coll data file is only downloaded if the browser does not have the necessary JavaScript collation APIs (recent versions of Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox do have the necessary features).

The iter data file is only downloaded if the browser does not have the necessary JavaScript segmentation APIs (recent versions of Chrome, Safari and Edge do have the necessary features).

The result is that the current minimum size of a LiveCode web app (when running on Chrome, Safari and Edge) has changed as follows:

  • Uncompressed size has dropped from 23.6 Mb down to 15.7Mb
  • Gzip compressed size has dropped from 10.6Mb down to 7.6Mb
read more
Mark WaddinghamLiveCode 10 DP-5: Smaller, faster, richer

Progress Update on the Year of Reinvention

by Kevin Miller on October 7, 2022 5 comments

It’s six months since I announced the Year of Reinvention in my keynote at LiveCode Global 2022. That puts us about halfway through the year, which seems like a good time for an update. I can honestly say the LiveCode product team (well I should say teams plural as we now have a number of independent teams on each project)! has never been busier. Nor have we ever invested so much in the LiveCode platform in such a short space of time. Progress is going fantastically well on the project as a whole, though as ever some areas are running a little faster or slower than originally projected.

There is so much happening that I can’t cover it all in a single post. However here is a status update on the major projects.

read more
Kevin MillerProgress Update on the Year of Reinvention

LiveCode 10 DP-3 – Chart Previews, Map Web Support and Improvements for Web on mobile.

by Steven Crighton on March 24, 2022 2 comments

The improvements on LiveCode 10 keep coming and we are happy to bring you the latest in the lineup today with LiveCode 10 DP-3. This release includes a new charts preview in edit mode to make iterating your charts easier, support for the Map widget in the browser, a very welcome bug fix that stops the keyboard popping up for every touch on mobile and more….

read more
Steven CrightonLiveCode 10 DP-3 – Chart Previews, Map Web Support and Improvements for Web on mobile.

LiveCode 10 DP-2 – Charts, Guidelines, Web Browser Widget and more

by Heather Laine on February 18, 2022 4 comments

For a Developer Preview release, this one is pretty exciting. Not only have we been building on and improving the new Web deployment, we’ve also slipped in a brand new Charts widget and some “snap to grid” guidelines you can use when laying out your apps. Plus, you can now run the browser widget in a browser. We haven’t yet tried running a browser within the web browser widget within the browser…

read more
Heather LaineLiveCode 10 DP-2 – Charts, Guidelines, Web Browser Widget and more

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Tags