If you think S# had a learning curve, wait until CH5 becomes more prominent. Heck, some good programmers couldn't even get their software environment setup after 2 days of Master's training to work correctly and deploy a sample panel file. Keep in mind, As many of us found out, that developing CH5 is MORE work, and requires MORE specialized knowledge in web frameworks, than using SG. So long story short, those of us looking for work-arounds to loosing the browser based web-control, are looking for SG based fixes that work with the existing touch panels and technologies that are currently installed and being deployed. I would have to re-design from scratch, and is therefore no longer an add-on item, or quick add to a system.

So if I have a project with SG touch panels, and the client asks for a web XPanel for additional control (or support personel to access), I can't just convert the existing SG layouts to HTML5 (CH5) like we can with SG XPanels. The problem with CH5, is even if they got the browser based version working tomorrow, most of our current projects in the pipeline (and the forseable future) are still going to use Smart Graphics, which means the 2 technologies are not compatible with each other. CH5 is still too new to rely on, even those of us who did training on it, and are trying to deep dive in it, most likely still aren't deploying CH5 projects in production yet (I may be wrong, but I'm guessing if there are, they are outliers). For most of us, getting fixes for loosing the web based version of Smart Graphics is a higher priority. Since we're half way through Nov already, I'm going to go out on a limb, and say 'probably not'. Does anyone have a sense of whether HTML5-based browser control is really going to happen in 2020?

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