[Lazarus] Web vs desktop development

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, ListMember wrote:

> On 2016-01-17 12:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, ListMember wrote:
>> 
>>> Though not free or open source, Elevate Web Builder seems to fit your 
>>> definition of "proper".
>> 
>> Or
>> 
>> http://smartmobilestudio.com/
>> 
>> Is also a good contender.
>
> I hadn't heard of this one.
>
>> http://www.morfik.com/
>> 
>> Was, however, the very first to do all this. They also own the patents 
>> involved.
>
> I have been aware of Morfik for a long time. I seem to remember finding 
> something about it (was it their license, or their business model; I can't 
> remember now) off-putting. I am glad that it is around, though.

IMHO: The problem with all of these tools is that they force a widgetset on you.
The ideal tool, as I see it, presents you with an IDE that has an option to use their
widgetset, but that also allows you to use other widgetsets, such as
Angular, React, extjs, dojo, qooxdoo etc.

Currently, they are all pretty closed environments.

>> all products are in violation of the Delphi license which states that you
>> cannot use it to create a competing product, I would think :-)
>
> 'Competing product' is a very broad area. If one goes that route, even 
> FastMM4 could be considered to have violated it.

True, but an IDE that uses Object Pascal as the language is a close match,
by all standards, although probably a lawyer could squeeze himself out of it... 
Anyway, my comment was not meant seriously :-)

Michael.