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In a message dated 10/10/02 10:20:32 PM, ambassador@fourthworld.com writes:<BR>
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What sort of apps are you folks making?<BR>
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Well, I can speak for the app that I'm trying to make - - - a DSL Router configuration tool. Revolution presently launches IE in my app which takes the user to the ISP's registration server, and has them put in all their credit card data and so forth via a secure connection. This goes on for a couple of pages. Then on the last page of registration, they get a new username/password. This username password then needs to get routed back to Revolution from IE and passed back to the DSL Router via HTTP Post through port 80. I'm able to do all of this by kludging together Applescript calls and Revolution calls, however it would be MUCH cooler if I could have the browser embedded in Revolution, so then I could sniff for the html of the username password right from within Revolution instead of relying on Applescript to do all the legwork of capturing the html source of that last page and passing variable-data back to Revolution. <BR>
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The reason I can't do it presently in Revolution is because the html rendering isn't displaying properly with all the tables they have, and I'd need security with e-commerce send-form data. If Revolution could have it's embedded browser that would work on both Mac and PC, then my registration app would be cross platform. I also wouldn't have to do the checks for the presence of IE or installing of IE. I'd gladly pay extra for this feature. Macromedia Director can't do this presently either, but I know it's in high demand. I'm happy with Revolution now, but I'd be even happier of it could embed a browser.<BR>
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