Web-Dedicated Metacard

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

Yes, Chipp, great work

more musings:

I am wondering about the use of the term "player"  assuming we copy the  
engine by itself and offer this from our own site, the problem become  
application binding. I don't think if a windoz user simply copies the  
single engine  MC or Revolution file to their hard drive that our apps  
will auto boot or boot by dropping on the application except on a  
Mac... right?

It would be great if MC or Revolution provided "Player Installers" like  
Supercard used to do, one for each platform, so that the application  
binding business would be handled automatically. I am not particularly  
interested in trying to make my own 'proprietary" apps that are  
standalone engines and then binding docs to those... I would just as  
soon let users know that they are in fact using Metacard or Revolution.  
but maybe Scott and Kevin have reasons for making the developers do  
that?

Of course we could use the installers from the websites i.e. the  
starter kits... but what we don't want is users to boot into the Dev  
UI... so i would just as soon not have anything but an engine  
installer...of course we would be responsible to provide all the  
libraries in our stack that were need to run properly...


On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 01:07 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> From: "Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com>
> Date: Fri Dec 20, 2002  1:07:16 AM Pacific/Honolulu
> To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: RE: Web-Dedicated Metacard
> Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>
>>
>> So, what kinds of strategies can anyone suggest to take this beyond  
>> the
>> "consensus reality" barrier?
>>
>
> FWIW, I'm using RR/MC to build application which are web-aware.
>
> The apps can update themselves using the web, and also download  
> plugins by
> just clicking on an image in a web page (which autolaunches the RR  
> app). In
> this way, users who are interested in using my apps automatically can  
> access
> them via the web.
>
> ButtonGadget at:
> www.buttongadget.com
>
> ItemWizard at:
> www.altuit.com/webs/hemingway/HemTools/ 
> LinksSubmittedbyItemWizardUsers.htm
>
> best,
>
> Chipp