challenge to Kevin and Bill

[David Bovill]

Thanks Kevin, good to know XML is there, and hope you can look at
prioritizing this 2-way JavaScript communication between web page and
plugin.

The reason for this is that the world of the web-app has already moved a
long way in terms of AJAX and Flash widgets living together and talking to
web services. Stand-alone Rev plugins that are not able to interact with the
AJAX based widgets on a page are always going to be second class citizens,
and not serious contenders in any development process.

On the other hand if a developer can use Rev to rapidly develop plugins
which talk to other developers work or to existing open source widgets (take
YUI widgets as an example), then a much stronger argument can be made for
developing widgets with a new plugin.
All of the web apps that i'm planning would want to sit on a page / enhance
the working of an existing AJAX application - that is they would provide
enhanced functionality. And of course we all get will some much more
impressive demos of RunRev based web apps :)


2009/6/25 Kevin Miller <kevin at runrev.com>

>    3. Will there be JavaScript API to allow the web page to interact with
> >    the plugin = ie as you can with the QuickTime plugin - assumption =
> "No!"
>
> Not in 4.0 anyway.
>
> >    4. Will it be possible somehow for the Plugin to interact with the DOM
> of
> >    the web page it is placed in - ie via JavaScript
> >
> > For the last 2 questions you might want to refer to:
> >
> >    - How you can use JavaScript to interact with Google Earth
> >
> plugin<
> http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?exp=earth#feature_balloons>
> >
> >    - How to get Flash to interact with web page using external
> >
> interface<
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/external_interface.html>o>
> r
> >
> > here<
> http://www.practicalflash.com/tutorials/using-externalinterface-to-write-
> > javascript-to-the-html-dom/>
>
> There will some sort of "do as JavaScript", but I cannot guarantee that it
> will make it into the first version (4.0) at this point.