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I love PureBasic, but I keep getting interested in web-based apps lately. Is there something like Basic for websites? You know, so a visitor goes to my website and runs an app or game that I've written, right in the browser? What's the closest thing to Basic to do this? Thanks.

VBScript if your browser supports it.
JavaScript should work on all browsers but is less like basic.

Real software do a web edition of Real Basic.
I seem to recall there's another called Morfik.
I think NS BASIC App Studio also outputs HTML/CSS/JavaScript

I can't vouch for any of them, I know of them but I haven't used them.

I've grown to really like QooxDoo, it's not BASIC but it's cool.

came across this http://www.runbasic.com/

the.weavster wrote:Real software do a web edition of Real Basic.
I seem to recall there's another called Morfik.
I think NS BASIC App Studio also outputs HTML/CSS/JavaScript

I can't vouch for any of them, I know of them but I haven't used them.

I've grown to really like QooxDoo, it's not BASIC but it's cool.

NSBasic's yahoo groups support is a big turn off. QooxDoo does look cool. Thanks.

MachineCode wrote:I love PureBasic, but I keep getting interested in web-based apps lately. Is there something like Basic for websites? You know, so a visitor goes to my website and runs an app or game that I've written, right in the browser? What's the closest thing to Basic to do this? Thanks.

If you want to program web applications using basic you are going to be severely disappointed. Why not try expanding your knowledge by learning a new language, something that is meant for building web apps? There are plenty to choose from.

What would it take to allow PB to be used to develop web apps?
Couldn't a PB library be developed to provide all of what is needed?
What WOULD be needed to be provided by a library at a minimum?

It'd need a backend, first of all.

Purebasic spits out assembly code that it feeds an assembler. Not exactly applicable with 'web app', beyond the back-end portion of an AJAX style system.

NSBasic App Studio is the closest thing I can think of. VBScript is as basic as any basics,
and y7ou can put your app in an iframe.

MachineCode wrote:I love PureBasic, but I keep getting interested in web-based apps lately. Is there something like Basic for websites? You know, so a visitor goes to my website and runs an app or game that I've written, right in the browser? What's the closest thing to Basic to do this? Thanks.

If you are content with games and want to stay in the PB realm, this game maker was created with PB:

http://www.tululoo.com

It is not what you are looking for (a BASIC language), but it would give you a PB-related way to get familiar with the "basics" (forgive the pun) of developing for the web.

PHP is really easy and almost each server runds it and its free.

ricardo wrote:PHP is really easy and almost each server runds it and its free.

Yet it's not basic and most of all is a server side language.

The question was for a BASIC to write programs executable inside the BROWSER.

luis wrote:The question was for a BASIC to write programs executable inside the BROWSER.

Yep. RunBasic looks very much like what I'm after; I'll have to study it. It has all the expected BASIC keywords and constructs (it's by the makers of Liberty BASIC), and preliminary tests seem to show it's what I want. Thanks for all replies!

(BTW, if Liberty BASIC can make a web version of their language, then maybe PureBasic can do it one day, too?).

There is also Monkey by Mark Sibly, the author of Blitz Basic. Cross platform and able to compile for the web be it via Flash or html5.

MachineCode wrote:Yep. RunBasic looks very much like what I'm after; I'll have to study it. It has all the expected BASIC keywords and constructs (it's by the makers of Liberty BASIC), and preliminary tests seem to show it's what I want.

I like Carl, but RunBaASIC suffers one of the major issues that LB does: Speed.

That said, RunBASIC is not too difficult to set up on your server (from what I remember).