Category: UI

February 16, 2023

Best Practices for Business Logic Validation

Validation is a critical aspect of any web application, especially in true web applications that offer advanced functionality for sophisticated users – people who use the application continuously, all day. Validation in such applications is often very complicated: validation rules may involve multiple related entities and complex conditional logic – it’s not just “integer greater than zero”. At Isomorphic, we...

Categories Technology/Industry/performance/SmartClient/UI

December 15, 2022

Optimizing Web Applications vs Web Sites

Most of the time, when you read advice about optimizing your web properties, the advice is provided without making a distinction between building a web site vs building a web application. This assumes that the approach to optimizing a basic web site – for example, a site showing off an artist’s portfolio – is basically the same as that for...

Categories SmartClient/Industry/performance/Technology/UI

December 8, 2022

Fallacies of React: Why so many React projects fail

If you use React, it’s easy to hire experienced developers, and you can use the best components available from a variety of sources, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, this is not at all true, for two main reasons: To be clear: React is a solid technology, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. The problem comes from misunderstanding the nature of React....

Categories SmartClient/Industry/performance/Technology/Tools/UI

May 6, 2020

The New Skin Editor has Landed

Introducing the new Skin Editor from Isomorphic. With the Skin Editor, you can now leverage the ability to cascade your changes to colors, font and borders to make wholesale adjustments with a simple click of a button. You can see these changes instantly in both the editor and in Reify so you can quickly know how different settings will look...

Categories Reify/Skin Editor/UI

April 1, 2020

It’s here! Download 12.1 now.

What’s in 12.1? You can find loads of details about new features in these blogs: Online Skin Editor Even Better Grids Two New Ways to Select Text Automatic Preferences, Notify System & Rqd Filter Criteria If you have a version prior to Release 12.0, remember that upgrading to 12.1 will also give you all release 12.0 features. You can learn about...

Categories Release 12/Release 12.1/UI

November 7, 2019

Lessons learned from a prospect’s evaluation

We recently talked to a prospective customer about SmartClient. After all the usual introductions, they probed into the capabilities we offer, architecture, performance, etc. Then, we talked about how they would evaluate SmartClient. They planned to use an example of a text input field their UE team had designed. It was very nice. It had all the states you would...

Categories performance/UI

July 10, 2019

Your Web App in any color you want!

We’ve gotten great feedback on our latest skins (Tahoe, Stratus, & Obsidian). But, of course, you may be looking for something slightly different … Maybe a little aubergine? Chartreuse? Wet asphalt grey? Whatever color you have your heart set on, you can have it with 12.1. 12.1 Online Skin Editor Our 12.1 release comes with an ‘Online Skin Editor‘. Getting...

Categories Release 12/Release 12.1/UI

August 9, 2018

Grid Filters: Pick the right tool for the job

It is generally accepted that a good user interface is one that allows users to perform the task at hand efficiently and effectively. It should be as simple as possible to limit distraction and misunderstandings. When it comes to filtering data in grids, providing users with every filtering capability in the toolshed is therefore probably not the way to go....

Categories Tools/UI

March 30, 2018

Bonus Stuff in Release 12: SVG support for images, calendar event selection, and more

OK, so there are a few extra things in Release 12 we didn’t get around to telling you about. SVG support for images With Release 12, SVG may be specified as the source file for an Img or ImgButton. For example, the three Img widgets below are defined by SVG using common external CSS. By changing the Color Scheme from...

Categories Feature/Mobile/Release 12/SVG/Tools/UI

March 27, 2018

Release 12 is Now Available. Go Get it!

What’s New in 12? You can find loads of details about new features in these blogs: Next Release Numbering New Skin: Obsidian (welcome to the dark side) 5 More New Features New Skin: Stratus (~5 Shades of Grey) SASS, Surface, Show/Hide Icons and more Bonus Features: SVG Support for images, calendar event selection, and more Here’s how to get it: New...

Categories Feature/HTML5/Mobile/Release 12/Roadmap/Tools/UI