Metacard support

[Kevin Miller]

On 4/12/03 10:02 pm, Wilhelm Sanke <sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de> wrote:

> First, I will follow Richard's advice to ask my questions again next
> week when I am back and Rev may have rounded up their new troops by then.

We're getting there, slowly but surely...

> I have done some more benchmarking, which I will report about,
> concerning the relative speeds of the MC and Rev IDEs both for using the
> IDEs during the development and for building standalones. I think I have
> found sort of a "critical mass" of controls where the Rev IDE absolutely
> bogs down (and the MC IDE does not). A sober analysis of the causes for
> these differences - about which I have some private and possibly
> educated guesses -  could maybe be instrumental and helpful for the
> improvement of both IDEs.

Did you file a bug report on it in Bugzilla?  If you did, we'll fix it.  If
you didn't, we'll still try, but can't guarantee what list this will be put
on when.

>> While you and I are enamored of MC's simplicity, for others that same
>> simplicity can be seen as "hellishly spartan" (to use the words of one
>> of my
>> clients who prefers Rev).
> 
> 
> I have looked up "spartan" in the Britannica World Language Dictionary
> (part of the Encyclopedia Britannica). Here is the entry:
> 
>> "Spartan":
>> Pertaining to Sparta or the Spartians; heroically brave and enduring.
>> A native or citizen of Sparta; hence, one of exceptional valor and
>> fortitude.
> 
> Adding what has been reported about the Spartans elsewhere one could
> summarize:
> 
> Spartans were "disciplined, enduring, efficient, and powerful".

Revolution has been around for 7 years less than the MC IDE, and has many
more features.  So we're not there yet on a raw efficiency or uncluttered
scale.  But it won't be long before we are that too, and in the mean time,
we have to cater for the larger number of users.  And you are quite free to
go on using the MC IDE if you wish.

Kind regards,

Kevin

Kevin Miller ~ kevin at runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/
Runtime Revolution - User-Centric Development Tools
~~~ Check our web site for new Revolution editions & special offers ~~~