Rev Player

[Peter Reid]

>I have one for my own needs, but I think a player for general use should
>come from the mother ship to maximize standardization and distribution.
>
>Just curious:  What would you like to do with a player than couldn't be done
>as a standalone?
>
>Richard Gaskin

I have produced a small number of CBTs for a UK government 
organisation who need to validate all executables for security 
reasons.  Supplying a single player with add-on stacks makes life 
easier in this respect. It is easier to persuade public sector 
customers that they are only running a single program with 
downloadable modules than it is to say they need to allow an 
increasing number of new executables.  They get twitchy about the 
security implications of new EXE files!

Also, it minimises network traffic if each client workstation has a 
single player installed which is set up as the helper-app within the 
browser so the user can download any of a number of CBT stacks 
without having to download the player engine each time or have to 
decide what to do with an executable (with attendant "security 
warnings" from their browser!).

Cheers

Peter
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