Thoughts on Kevin's announcement

[Robert Mann]

The recent change in iphone policy and runrev plans have shaken my strategic
tree over here in France.

So i decided not to wait any longer for the ipad dream, and to launch my
first app as mac and windows desktop !! I also decided to dig javascript as
it has become so central nowadays; being at the heart of webBrowsers. Wanted
to share views on that :

I identified SproutCore framework and wondered if Jerry is working with that
kind of framework!?

It seems there is now 3 approaches to javascript-webapps :
- "thin" client (all done on server side, eg that standard dynamic CMS sites
on-rev excells at)
- "fat" client (static HTML5 CSS with lots of Javascript all around that can
directly interact with data servers, like SproutCore)
- and.. a "sportive" approach.. which I thought off with on-rev, which is a
dynamic CMS using .irev scripts the most and as little javascript as
possible, and possibly jQuery scripts to keep cross-browser compatibility...

 .. and that is where RevIgniter, which I found so impressive seem to go! :

"This version includes a new library, 
which lets you write jQuery code for event handling, 
animation and Ajax interactions using revTalk."

Now sproutCOre has a touch librairy and an IDE just out of the oven... and
with phoneGap still being ok with apple new strategy.. it seems like an
interesting doable route for mainstream information orientated iphone apps.
[and we'll soon see what rodeo brings in that arena too!]

I'll be testing those 2 frameworks shortly and let know.. and of course any
views, maybe on a separate thread?

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as far as the main subject of this thread was... Kevin's annoucement, 

to make it short : I'm ok not to have any money back from the mobile program
(to be crude about it...) BUT I would like A) to get ANDROID mobile instead
of iPhone (seems fair! eventhough i'll ditch my dream regarding iPad).

If we get maemo, window mobile and android : we'll be kings! and thankfull
to runrev!! Because if ever one wants to cover the whole lot of mobiles,
javascript and HTML open up : iPhone, webOs, and Blackberry.. another good
reason to consider javascript as language n°2 as a complement to xTalk!

and B) Also just ONE MORE STEP for the on-rev : the possibility to have
closed STACKS instead of opened .irev so that a market can develop there
(this is a year long awaited request!)

To my view the revWeb plugin is kind of useless road which I would not
pursue at great expense, since javascript seems to provide the fuel for
webapps now (demos at SproutCore). I must was enthousiastic at first but
just cannot make it to rely on that one.

I would prefer that a minimal audio/video library be made, like the datagrid
enhancement of last year (simple fade in and out, cross fademix, minimal
reverb, tone correction and normalization) and possibility to ouput a
compressed quicktime format. It is important to be able to produce good
quality audio/video by program too since runrev claims to be a media
platform.


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