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()
  }
  

To install, follow these instructions. To upgrade, simply upgrade from the update site (Via Help > Install new software).

**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 ...

Version 0.3.4 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 compared to 0.3.3:

• Various bug fixes

• New basic mobl::i18n library. This enables the use of strings in applications using non-ASCII characters (you cannot currently use unicode in mobl code), e.g. Japanese. It has two functions: fetchLanguageBundle and _ (to lookup a key in the language file). Use as follows:

  application myapp
  import mobl::i18n
  import mobl::ui::generic
  resource lang/japanese.json
  screen root() {
    script {
      fetchLanguageBundle("lang/japanese.json");
    }
    header(_("title"))
    label(_("greeting", ["Zef Hemel"]))
  }
  

  The lang/japanese.json file contains something like this (%% are replaced with items from _‘s second argument array of strings):

  {
    "title": "日本語",
    "greeting": "こんにちは %%"
  }
  

To install, follow these instructions. To upgrade, simply upgrade from the update site (Via Help > Install new software).

Version 0.3.4 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 ...

Version 0.3.3 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 compared to 0.3.2:

• Bugfix where destroyAll() wouldn’t trigger an update to lists (thanks by Dave Gardner)

• New async feature in controls, useful for operations that take a longer time to complete (e.g. database-intensive calls and web services calls):

  var results = async(SomeService.someCall())
  whenLoaded(results) {
    list(result in results) { ... }
  }
  

  this is equivalent to:

  var results : [ResultType] = null
  script {
    async {
      results = SomeService.someCall();
    }
  }
  whenLoaded(results) {
    list(result in results) { ... }
  }
  

  i.e. it performs the call asynchronously, allowing the UI to fully render, then, when the call returns, the result is assigned to the control/screen variable. The whenLoaded control simply takes an argument and if its value is null, it will show a “Loading…” screen, otherwise it will render its body.

To install, follow these instructions. To upgrade, simply upgrade from the update site.

Version 0.3.3 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 ...

Version 0.3.2 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 compared to 0.3.1:

• itemArrow control has been removed, the arrow is rendered for when the item control has an onclick handler.
• Bug fixes related to auto updating of UI related to search collections (Entity.searchPrefix())
• Runtime fixes.

To install, follow these instructions. To upgrade, simply upgrade from the update site.

Version 0.3.2 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 ...

Version 0.3.1 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 compared to 0.3.0:

• Bug fixes
• Code completion and checks for styling
• Fix of contextMenu control

To install, follow these instructions. To upgrade, simply upgrade from the update site.

Version 0.3.1 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 ...

Today version 0.3.0 of mobl was 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:

• Styling support. Documentation is upcoming.
• Configuration file support. Configuration settings are no longer put in the application file itself, but have instead been moved to the config.mobl file in the mobl project.

• cond for conditionally showing content in user interfaces has been renamed to when, and also has an else clause. So, code like this:

  cond(show) {
    ...
  }
  cond(!show) {
    ...
  }
  

  can now be rewritten to:

  when(show) {
    ...
  } else {
    ...
  }
  

To install, follow these instructions. To upgrade, simply upgrade from the update site.

Today version 0.3.0 of mobl was 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: * ...