Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for creating a user interface for database-driven web sites or software applications in which the layout of elements can accommodate and respond to expansion and contraction in a fluid-like or content-flow manner at run-time, but is also constrained by fixed or grid-like sizes, positions, and properties that are specified at design-time. This aspect of controlling the layout of controls via a hybrid of fixed as well as fluid properties, all of which an be visually or programmatically specified at design-time as well as at run-time, provides significant advantages over previous web site and software application design tools and techniques.

Abstract: A system and method are provided to enable developers of web sites and software applications to code in an object-oriented high-level language that is compiled into a browser-side JavaScript which can be natively interpreted by a browser. This enables developers to program in a high-level language of choice to create browser-side web applications, instead of directly using the target lower-level language JavaScript.