Version 0.3.4 of mobl has been released. Mobl is a language for rapid development of mobile web applications using HTML5 technologies. Programs written in the mobl language are compiled to a combination of HTML, Javascript and CSS and can run on any webkit browser, specifically those on iOS and Android devices.

New in this version compared to 0.3.3:

  • Various bug fixes

  • New basic mobl::i18n library. This enables the use of strings in applications using non-ASCII characters (you cannot currently use unicode in mobl code), e.g. Japanese. It has two functions: fetchLanguageBundle and _ (to lookup a key in the language file). Use as follows:

    application myapp
import mobl::i18n
import mobl::ui::generic
resource lang/japanese.json
screen root() {
  script {
    fetchLanguageBundle("lang/japanese.json");
  }
  header(_("title"))
  label(_("greeting", ["Zef Hemel"]))
}

    The lang/japanese.json file contains something like this (%% are replaced with items from _‘s second argument array of strings):

    {
  "title": "日本語",
  "greeting": "こんにちは %%"
}

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