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H5 was supposed to combine strengths the original Internet Connect product (ease of adding a web UI) with the best of Web Builder (no massive download of Java classes). A new app Broker would run as a service (combining the original EXE and ISAPI brokers). And it would use some of the more fashionable technologies (JQuery, AJAX, etc.)
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Compile and distribute the files as instructed in the video (I didn't take notes and, so, did very unpleasant things to the pooch; that's why I started by recommending you take notes). Your EXE and any required DLLs (including skeleton.dll, which Clarion will copy into your output directory), including Clarion DLLs, go to \EXEC or to a directory under \EXEC. There is also a <AppName>_Global.js file generated into your app directory. Copy it to \PUBLIC (that's the step I missed; I copied it to \EXEC - but not until I remembered ... without , it your app may very well run, mine did, but not run correctly and you'll blame H5; I did).
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For my second H5 experiment, I selected a real monster, an app with a single window (presentation layer) and a DLL (where all the work is done - it's proprietary, so no screen shots). The DLL calls several other DLLs (data, utilities, etc., total is one EXE and four DLLs plus Clarion DLLs). A real monster, right? Yeah, sure.
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Aesthetics were not great but almost everything worked as expected. What didn't work? Two List Controls "From" a hand coded queue. These are probably interpreted as HTML <Select>s, which support only one column and displayed as drop downs. Changing the Class used by the control would probably fix it up.
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H5 is a worthy successor to IC/WB. The AppBroker is definitely improved. Those of you already (or still) using IC/WB can probably apply almost all of what you already know. And, there are alternate themes ut out there for the downloading.
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