What's The Verdict, Web or Not?

[Bill Marriott]

There is no such thing as a "plugin war" and never has been one -- people 
can and do have multiple plugins. New ones are still being created. It's not 
a zero-sum game. No comparison to the "browser war" which apparently still 
rages on.

Last I checked, ViewPoint/Enliven was doing quite nicely. They have a 
significant share of the market for presenting 3D models in browsers. They 
compete with Anark, WildTangent, and Holomatix, among others. One wonders 
how so many plugins for just one segment of the market could survive if the 
only game in town was Flash.

"Let's get serious" -- If the future is in "AJAX, DOM, Jscript and 
Frameworks" then we're all wasting our time coding in TranScript or xTalk or 
whatever you want to call it, as none of those technologies speak our 
language. We might as well "invest" our time learning those technologies if 
you're right and we're "worth our salt."


"Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com> wrote in 
message news:7aa52a210607041913s50f5d60bk1e4ad8ec7ec3f677 at mail.gmail.com...
> Hey Richard, I know you know this. The browser plugin wars are over.
> Macromedia won (with Flash), end of story....at least that's what any
> investor worth his salt will tell you.
>
> Richard, I agree with you, the future is AJAX, DOM, Jscript and
> Frameworks. Just check out what the investors ARE investing in.
>
> I know you remeber Meta-Creations. They sold their whole company (tons
> of great programs) and everything in it, lock, stock and barrel and
> bet their future on a plugin. That was 7 years ago, and just look how
> far they've come!
>
> Let's all get serious, perhaps it is technically feasible..or not.
> But's it definitely not feasible marketing-wise. I mean who in their
> right mind would believe a company with RR's resources could/would
> ever execute such a late-stage plugin wars strategy???
>
> The marketing considerations alone are staggering. Perhaps if RR was
> sold to Google or IBM or someone with the resources, but even then I
> doubt we'd see a RR native plugin.
>
> -Chipp