Feature support by deployment type - the state of the art?

[Keith Clarke]

Thanks to Jaque and Lynn for the clarifications. I knew about the server-side revServer stack limitation but it's good to know that revlets support stacks, sub-stacks and multiple stacks. 

This corrects a misunderstanding I have held from early in my learning curve, when an add-on developer led me to believe that revlets didn't support stacks. :-(( 

Still, I'm more than happy to be corrected on this, if it means I can start creating :-)

So, how does one tell whether an add-on uses/requires the externals specification?
 
On 24 Jan 2011, at 18:26, J. Landman Gay wrote:
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> Well, the server product just includes the language at present and doesn't currently load stacks, but I believe that's on the to-do list. But it sounds like you mean revelets. Those are stacks themselves, so yes, they should support any third-party add-on that fits within the restrictions of a browser. I guess that could be documented more fully.
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> You can include substacks in revlets and use their scripts, or display them within the one-window-at-a-time restriction by using the same window when you switch stacks. There's also a way to display two (or more) stacks in the same browser window, and they can talk to each other. Is that what you mean? Add-ons that require access to the user's machine need to have their permissions set correctly depending on what they need to do.
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