Is Rev too "Mac focused"?

[Dan Shafer]

Ken....

What you are saying here is that you want a cross-platform tool that 
still allows you to do very platform-specific code. Or maybe you don't 
care about cross-platform as long as you can use the system-specific 
stuff. Either way, I can tell you from bitter experience that creating 
a tool designed to be xplat and then opening the door to proprietary 
OS-based code is a path to disaster for the tool maker and ultimately 
for developers, particularly inventive users who find themselves 
trapped on a single platform by a bad, poorly understood decision.

There has *never* been a true xplat development tool of which I am 
aware that successfully used native system calls and opened the native 
system API. That way lies danger, methinks.

On Aug 7, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> On 8/7/04 1:39 PM, "Cubist at aol.com" <Cubist at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>    Now that I've got that out of my system: What things do you PC 
>> boys find
>> lacking in the PC implementation of Rev?
>
> Here's a couple of goodies:
>
> 1) Inability to use ActiveX or COM controls (although with Chipp's
> altBrowser you can use them in a web browser, but that's different).
>
> 2) Inability to call the Windows API (something which almost every 
> PC-based
> development environment is able to do - RealBasic, VB, etc.).
>
> 3) Inability to call "normal" (i.e. not developed specifically for Rev)
> DLLs.
>
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