Artephis 2.0.1
Device: Mac OS
Category: Developer Tools
Price: Free, Version: 1.5.0 -> 2.0.1 (iTunes)
Description:The Phi software enables you to easily and quickly create high value Intranet and Internet applications. Realize an entire web site including database connection in no time by means of a menu-driven editor (Artephis). You don't need any programming skills in PHP or ASP.
Keynotes
▪ Drag & Drop IDE Artephis
▪ Cross browser compatibility, including support for IE 6+, Firefox 2.0+, Opera 9.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome
▪ Independent of any browser plug-in
▪ Full integrated UTF8 support for all generated Web- and Phi pages
▪ Build-in Database support for all major DBMS, including support for MySQL, Postgres, DB2, SQL Server, ODBC, Oracle
▪ Easy Translations of all text elements (including codecs for Big5, EUC-JP, KOI8-R and many more)
▪ Extended GUI Elements like application menus, progress bar, date picker, tables, rollovers, etc.
▪ Graphical effects like Colorize, Drop shadow, Blur and Reflections
▪ Perspective transformation of elements (including all input items)
▪ Concept of a Master template page (one corporate page in the background)
▪ Build-in Session management
▪ Site config support for Corporate Design issues (colors, palette, database)
▪ Transparency support for all elements
▪ JavaScript support on both server and client side
▪ Native application menu in the application mode (requires the PhiPlugin)
▪ Different Data sources (static, translated, database, url, process)
▪ Special Phi variables available in text sources
▪ AJAX (Asyncronus JavaScript And XML) support in Phi- and HTML mode
▪ Uses jQuery as back-end
▪ New client scripting API
▪ Easy Drag&Drop implementation for elements
What's New
• Complete new IDE
• Items are now implemented using a plug-in API
• Highly extended JavaScript and ServerScript API (including new animation, coloring and content access functions)
• New decorated table and check-list item with sortable columns
• Improved perspective transformations for all recent browsers
• The separation of layout and display items is removed: all items can now be part of layouts
• Layouts use better algorithms and are highly improved to organize items, borders with rounded corners can be added
• Create images using the Canvas API with ServerScript
• Upgraded jQuery and jQuery UI
• Improved formatting and globalization of date items
Note: the free edition is limited to 30 items!
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