Releasing a commercial revweb site

[Richard Miller]

Hi Ed,

What kind of problems did you encounter? This could be very helpful info.

Thanks.
Richard



Edward D Lavieri Jr wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> I recently took this leap, but on a smaller scale. Even after thorough 
> local testing on multiple PC and Mac operating systems, my client had 
> problems. This taught me to wait until well after the first non-beta 
> release. Once things are truly stable, I will dip my feet back in 
> these waters. Until then, I am using other development environments.
>
> We only get one chance at first impressions.
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 5:55 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
>
>> I'm within a week of releasing a fairly extensive commercial revweb 
>> project, which will immediately have traffic in the thousands (based 
>> on my existing Rev software and user database). I'm feeling a little 
>> uncertain about this, given the state of the plugin (which mostly 
>> works quite well). I've only tested my program on XP and Firefox so 
>> far, but will do much more thorough testing this week, including 
>> asking folks here to help in the testing process.
>>
>> One concern I have is that the plugin will likely be upgraded again 
>> soon (in a week?... two weeks?... unknown)... meaning all my users 
>> will have to reinstall it.... which means downloading the new 
>> version, shutting down their browser, installing the new plugin, then 
>> restarting. Yes, they have to do this with other well known plugins, 
>> but will they be concerned that this process will be all-too-frequent 
>> with the Rev plugin? And for that matter, what am I even telling them 
>> about a revweb-based site? Am I telling them to essentially ignore 
>> the security concerns (I use every permission, other than the registry)?
>>
>> Will there be problems with other configurations of an OS and 
>> browser? I hope to find this out shortly, but what if they have a 
>> somewhat older version of a browser? There's been so little revweb 
>> real-world experience to date.
>>
>> Anyone else on the verge of taking this leap? Or better yet, has 
>> anyone else already made the leap? Any particular thoughts on this 
>> matter?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Richard Miller
>>
>>
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