Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern Web Apps

Bobby Jasper writes to tell us that The Firebird Database Community News has an interesting writeup on Morfik, a new development tool for beginning web applications. Morfik boasts increased developer productivity going so far as to draw comparisons between themselves and the current industry as VB 1.0 was to GUI development. After five years of development they are getting ready to release an evaluation version of their software, might be worth a look.

Any one has sample code?

[bogaboga]

I really want to take a look at Morfik Basic, Morfik Pascal, Morfik C# or Morfik Java in action. Any one care to post sample code? What about screenshots?

Where are the web standards

[zxSpectrum]

Assuming that they actually eat their own dog food, and use their own tool to create their Own site [morfik.com], I wouldn't trust this tool. Their site is an inaccessible piece of table-based rubble with missing alternative texts all over the place. Not even Slashdot in it's old incarnation was this ugly, standards-wise.

Adding to that, their site is severly SEO-deoptimized, which might -- now that I think of it -- be a good thing to end-users, as this will undoubtedly reduce the spread of said markup rubble

Re:Lot's of nice words, but where is the software?

[desplesda]

It turns out you can write it in other languages. After I left, it appears they added support for C#, VB, and others. As to being a host to trojans, I think that there are a few more dangerous threats out there than a web server. A web server can't act like Back Orifice does, unless there's some serious hacking going on with the program that Morfik's made to compile.

I'm actually working on something like this

[mandrake*rpgdx]

I plan on making a PHP Visual IDE for PHP+AJAX applications. The whole concept will be something like VB (more like Delphi, since it will be OO) and runs in a browser. So far, it's in the basic beta stages, but it works really well. It uses PHP objects to represent CSS tags and HTML tags, and each "object" has actions that will call PHP code (the idea is to take learning an extra language out of AJAX programming, and to create a visual environment).

So, you'll be able to drag and drop and place visually images, text, text boxes, etc. Be able to code these objects to have key events, mouse over events, etc. All from the web browser.

And yes it will be open source, no it won't be free as in free beer, and yes there will be a single site evaluation version for people to use (either with only one site, or to just try out).

right now, the code name is FireFly.

Re:Great!

[estebanf]

lol
check the page source code. You can read a "Generated by Morfik XS http//www.morfik.com" on top... and then realize that the generated code is not compliant with xhtml or html strict.... So using ccs2 with this "mega tool" will be another pain in the ass.
Good job pionners! [morfik.com]

compiler with JavaScript backend

[idlake]

It had to happen: a compiler with a JavaScript backend...