The Case For A RunRev Player (was "Stack and Substacks")

[Wolfgang M. Bereuter]

On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 19:47 Europe/Vienna, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Players can be useful for things that have a common focus, and a lot of
> developers make them for their own collections of related wares.  But
> attempting to deploy general application designs in a player introduces
> other challenges, including menu management, name space 
> considerations, and
> general design issues (this topic came up recently on the SC list:
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SuperCard/message/11596>).
>
> So what would make good candidates for distribution in a player?  What 
> would
> be an example of "things that share a common focus"?
>
Agree with Richard. A many developer of Authoring-tools are leaving the 
Players for double clickable Standalone Distributions...
Most of the regular users dont like to download Players, Plugins and 
all that kind of stuff..
But, what are about a "Flash-player-plugin"-building Distribution 
stack? So that any Rev stack can be viewed directly in the Browser 
window.
Whole sites could be done without dooing the same again in html...
Stacks can be streamed directly into the browser without QT, RM, WMP
Running a rev app in the "browser", connect directly to SQL dbs.
Save also developing time for distributing rev apps on different 
mediums (again no QT, RM, WMP)
And a lot more...

One tip more: pls dont be focused to stronge at "your" favorite 
product. Pls have a look at others too. see the great success of 
Qarbon, when they changed their viewlet fileformat from Java to swf 
format...)
I personally dont like Flash, but its imho the only Standard in the web 
which is not in danger to be killer from M$ because M$ is married with 
sfw. Before killing it M$ will buy MM. And then is time enough for SVG.

I m not a scripter, so I dont know how to do that and how its possible. 
But I know THAT would give rev the chance to become a real killer app.
Sorry if my idea is stupid, because of my ignorance in hardcore 
developing...

My 2cent...

regards
Wolfgang M. Bereuter

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