A glimpse of the future

[Bob Warren]

It's 17th October, 2007. Bob goes into his studio and turns on his 
Ubuntu computer. As soon as Ubuntu is up and running, a little yellow 
icon appears in the top right-hand corner of his screen. He clicks on 
it, and Ubuntu tell him that there are some software updates for him to 
download. He gladly accepts, and within a short time, the updates are done.

The first thing Bob does is to go into his system settings. He makes 
Opera his default browser, rather than Firefox. He has a lot of MHTs to 
display, and Opera is the only browser capable of displaying them. In 
fact, Bob uses MHTs not only for compiling Help files and the like, but 
in many circumstances he uses them instead of the old Word documents 
nowadays. Not only are they more versatile for general use, but Bob 
likes them because he can easily superimpose text on background images. 
And of course all the HTML content and image data is contained within a 
single file for easy distribution.

So now Bob wants to see whether the default Opera browser is used 
successfully in the revBrowser example stack provided by Runtime 
Revolution. He opens it up, runs it, and clicks on the appropriate 
button.  Damn!  It didn't work. But before he has a chance to get too 
disappointed, he notices that the "Rev Online" icon at the top of his 
IDE screen is dancing up and down. He clicks on it and sees the 
following message:

"Hello! Runtime Revolution here. We have some crucial update patches for 
your IDE. Do you want to download them?"

Bob downloads the patches, re-starts his IDE, and opens up the 
revBrowser example stack again. Lo and behold, there is a beautiful 
display of an MHT shown in an Opera-based browser. The patches worked!