Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)

re: Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)

Tek — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:39:03 GMT

How your dropdown "company" will look like? Will it appear in new screen or options will be listed in drop down?

Thank you

re: Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)

Guilherme Macedo — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:49:53 GMT

What is the release date for the VS LightSwitich HTML?

re: Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)

SMS — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:23:57 GMT

I am impressed by the availability of HTML Client and want to try LightSwitch for enterprise apps development. Sorry if I am sounding naive, but can LightSwitch HTML Client be used for regular Web Development? I understand that it can be used for "devices", but will it cover desktop browsers? I am guessing, practically we could, but is it a product use case?

re: Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)

Joe Binder (MSFT) — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:03:58 GMT

Hi Manuel,

I am afraid not. JQM does adress a lot of the browser-specific aspects of mobile development, but it does not provide any controls or UI patterns that specifically deal with varying screen sizes. I think Bill's main point here is that there are likely different patterns or constructs you'd want to use on a wide-screen tablet versus a narrow phone. Any logic to adapt to these different sizes would need to take place at the application layer--i.e., above jQuery Mobile--because the best UI for a given resolution is going to depend on the nature and content of the app.

I hope this helps.

Joe

re: Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)

Manuel Rivera — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:50:47 GMT

Hi,

Excuse my ignorance here ... isn't this a job for Jquery mobile? JQuery mobile is a framework for mobiles: phones and tablets. Doesn't JQM adjust this issues automatically?

Bye ...

re: Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)

Joe Binder (MSFT) — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:43:21 GMT

Hi Bill,

Our early preview does not do anything special for the varying screen sizes; however, this is something we are working through right now. The design(s) are not fully flushed out, but we are considering having pre-defined UI configurations (media queries, etc) baked-in for the well-known device resolutions. This would allow us to automatically alter things like the shell/navigation UI to work well on the given device. Again, the design is still in its early stages but working well on a variety of screen sizes is one of our highest UX-related priorities at this point.

Thanks.

Joe

re: Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)

Bill McCarthy — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:58:00 GMT

Nice work Joe !! Regarding screen widths we've got windows phone which is currently 480 x 800, and we're soon to have Windows RT and Windows 8 with the docking panes set at 320 px. Have you got some magic to make it look good on both 480 and 320 wide screens ?

re: Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)

rodrigo — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:53:42 GMT

Download: LightSwitch HTML Client Preview (Coming Soon!) :(

re: Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)

Babloo1436 — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:03:48 GMT

Nice Article.

re: Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)

Michael Washington — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:24:24 GMT

Another well done important article.