Factors That Could Impact Xojo Web1 Application Functionality

Let’s be fair. Xojo Inc ist not Apple. Big companies screw their users also all the time (see VisualStudio for Mac @Microsoft).

The main issues were:

  1. they promised to make Web 1 migratable to Web 2
  2. Web 2 was far from beeing mature (it now becomes more and more)
  3. they promised to still “support” Web 1 but they didn’t made it clear enough what that meant (it means they help, but they don’t update anything anymore)
  4. they dint’t took complains serious enough (now they do seemingly) which has hurt the community heavily.

To all of you running a Web 1 application:

  • get rid of it as soon as you can. Use Web2 or what ever else fits to you.
  • If you can’t afford this, pray for that your application will continue to work in future browsers but be prepared that it will stop working in a future.
  • When the 2019 IDE doesn’t work anymore in future OS, hope that Xojo finds ways or is willing to fix this (I hope this too)
  • meanwhile, and I can’t stress this enough, rewrite your fking application