Revolution => Flash

[Ken Ray]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:33:41 -0500, Derek Bump wrote:

> I feel that instead of trying to convert Revolution into other things
> like Flash, PDF, SVG and other technologies, that it would instead be a
> better idea to try to expand the usability of Revolution on the Web.
> 
> AKA: A Browser Plugin or Extension for displaying Revolution content
> within Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or any other browser!

Its funny, Derek, I feel exactly the opposite... apart from the time 
and effort needed to even create a Rev browser plugin, you then have 
all sorts of other issues to deal with both from the technical and 
deployment ends. Many companies will not just allow new plugins to be 
used on their IT-managed corporate machines. Personally, I'd feel that 
the time would be better spent in outputting Rev code to an already 
ubiquitous (or soon to be) existing plugin like Flash, or the upcoming 
Silverlight.

I say this from a unique vantage point - I was working for Allegiant 
Technologies when they owned SuperCard and this was during the 
development and deployment of their "Roadster" web plugin. Getting an 
initial prototype of an interpreter in the plugin was pretty quick to 
develop, but when the time came to really make it happen, there were 
lots of platform/browser issues to deal with that dragged it out. It 
was never really completed... it was released in an unfinished state 
and didn't last too long (since Allegiant didn't last too long), but it 
was not for the faint of heart. 

Now of course the Rev code is different than the SuperCard code, and 
has less dependencies (I would think), so it might be more doable, but 
I still see deployment/acceptance/installation issues that make me 
think it would better to let someone else handle that mess.

Just my 2 cents,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/