Update: 0.3.5 contained a major bug that causes most applications to break. This has been fixed in the minor updated 0.3.5.1. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Version 0.3.5 of mobl has been released. Mobl is a language for rapid development of mobile web applications using HTML5 technologies. Programs written in the mobl language are compiled to a combination of HTML, Javascript and CSS and can run on any webkit browser, specifically those on iOS and Android devices.

New in this version since 0.3.4:

  • More robustness in the user interface when a property is null (now just shows null, no longer crashes)
  • No longer shows a blank screen while loading the application (or when Javascript is disabled).

  • Beginnings of a testing library (mobl::test). More a starting point than anything else. Want to contribute? Follow these instructions and send me a pull request (the code for mobl::test is here). Here’s a sample app, using tests:

    application testapp
import mobl::ui::generic
import mobl::test
testSuite("math", {
  assertEqual(2, Math.round(3/2), "Rounding");
});  
testSuite("main tests", {
  assert("Zef" != "Zef", "this will likely fail");
}); 
screen root() {
  header("Tests")
  testRunner()
}

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