Revolution => Flash

[Derek Bump]

Ken,

I understand exactly what you are saying, and I do agree that advancing
any product into another "arena" can be expensive, time consuming, and
may ultimately fail.  But at the same time I feel that today's market is
very web-centric, and not having a plugin or control is a missed
opportunity for Revolution to become a serious competitor with both
Flash and Java, as well as many other new web technologies.

Revolution grew out of MetaCard and I know it's support and user-base is
growing every day.  Flash grew out of FutureSplash Animator in the 80's,
and look where it is now.  ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash )

I can see many uses for Revolution within a browser platform and I hope
to get as much support for it as possible.  Maybe one day the folk's in
Scotland will decide to start it's development, and then myself and
others can begin creating some of the projects we've been dreaming of.


Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software
http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com


Ken Ray wrote:
> 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/
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