What's The Verdict, Web or Not?

[Brian Yennie]

Supercard's plugin - "Roadster" was extremely buggy and Mac-only. 
Hypercard was demonstrated as becoming integrated with Quicktime - not 
quite the same as a browser plugin and no guarantee of anything in 
particular.

Both efforts ultimately were total failures for one reason or another, 
and neither product had a fraction of the toolset of Rev. They weren't 
even cross-platform. Note that Supercard is still alive, but the 
browser plugin is not- and it's still Mac only.

A useful browser plugin for a Rev-like tool doesn't even make much 
technical sense. Sure, there are instances where an HTML export can 
work (say you are building a slideshow app) or a Flash export of your 
animation, or a Quicktime export of something else. There are other 
tools for delivery in a browser. You are much better off learning some 
of them, than trying to make Revolution live inside a browser window. 
Not too mention that if your product really MUST live inside a browser 
window, a large portion of many markets will just walk away when you 
ask them to install a new plugin.

I don't mind if people really want to keep discussing this and find it 
interesting, but please consider the evidence that it's extremely 
unlikely to happen anytime soon - and quite possibly ever.

Maybe we can shift the focus here. What kind of *specific* export tools 
would be good projects for Rev - and better suited than the already 
existing tools for those formats?

- Brian

> Not impossible. As I mentioned earlier, Apple demonstrated a browser 
> plug-in
> for HyperCard. SuperCard had a similar plug-in. Such a facility would
> dramatically increase the value of writing in Rev. "Quite magical," 
> indeed.
>
>
> Rick Harrison wrote
>> it is rather tall order for stacks to run on
>> the web in the way you are describing.
>>
>> If they can do it, yes things would become quite magical in that 
>> world.
>> I think the hard truth is that it is probably too difficult a task to
>> accomplish in the near future.
>
>
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