What's The Verdict, Web or Not?

[Bill Marriott]

Well, you got me on Viewpoint!

But, do I hear you correctly that you are saying coding in Rev is a waste of 
time? Seriously?

"Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com> wrote in 
message news:7aa52a210607042122n2137ea13s1a5ce83e55876f0d at mail.gmail.com...
> On 7/4/06, Bill Marriott <wjm at wjm.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The simple fact is, most website producers and developers are NOT
> interested in adding other plugin requirements for websites.
> And...many producers and developers are interested in AJAX, DOM.
>
>> Last I checked, ViewPoint/Enliven was doing quite nicely.
>
> Guess you haven't checked lately. There last Quarterly report
> announces a 45% decrease from last quarter and 29% decrease from the
> quarter a year ago. Plus they've announced a 30% layoff after closing
> on a $5.1M round less than a year ago. I don't know about your
> company, but the VC's I've had on my board wouldn't be happy with
> those numbers.
>
>> "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."
>
> Now, that's the first point you've made that I agree with!
>
> -Chipp
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