By default the built-in Web Browser that is used on Windows to show web pages uses the Internet Explorer 7 rendering engine. Which means the Xojo HTMLViewer and the ActiveX WebBrowser controls also use this older rendering engine.
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Web apps built with the traditional tools (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc.) are nothing more than a series of text files and thus not very secure. Once a hacker gets into a server, they can steal your code or modify it. One big advantage web apps built with Xojo have is that Xojo compiles your app to machine code so there’s no code on your server to steal. Additionally, the overwhelming majority of hackers have no experience with machine code, so modifying your app to do something nefarious can be extraordinarily difficult.
Comments closedHealthcare.gov, the US Government’s health insurance exchange website for states that didn’t provide their own, was supposed to handle about 50,000 to 60,000 simultaneous users. Unless you have been living under a rock, you know what a complete disaster the website as been. But it didn’t (and doesn’t) have to be that way.
Comments closedEverybody is taking about multi-platform software development these days. From a desktop to a laptop to a tablet to a phone, people and companies want their software to run on whatever device they are using.
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