Bruce started the training off with an overview of what web apps are, including a warning that he would be lying to us. Not to be alarmed - this is lying in the sense of making some things simpler than they really are so they're understandable. 

Key things to know about web apps and specifically NetTalk apps:

• server and browser are disconnected
• one EXE, multiple users
• server is written in Clarion
• client is written in JavaScript
• appearance is handled by CSS
• uses HTML/HTML5 (HTML5 isn't an accepted spec yet but many browsers have implemented many of the HTML5 features)
• the app you ship is the web server - there is no external web server requirement (e.g. IIS, Apache)
• the visual designer is gone 
  • deciding what the app looks like comes at the end, and you can style the whole app at once, e.g. make all browses look the same way 
  • this freaks a lot of people out
  • it's actually much much better to do the visual design at the end - it's less work
• main 4(5) browsers supported
  • IE
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera too
• start thinking about procedures in a NetTalk app as event handlers
• you can't have local variables (but there's a way to get around that)

Bruce then whipped up a new app using the NetTalk wizard.

You can use localhost. Bruce also mentioned setting up your own names for IP addresses - the file you need for this is found under %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts 

More coming later on this page...