What's The Verdict, Web or Not?

[Richard Gaskin]

Bill Marriott wrote:
> By a plug-in "comparable [to Rev]" I mean Director of course. Director's 
> lingo is/was even a variant of HyperTalk, before it transmogrified into a 
> multi-headed ECMAscript beast.

Director is still available, serving the audience that needs it well.

> In one of my earlier posts, I did comment that the browser "sandbox" would 
> be the hardest aspect of a Rev plugin. Presumably one wouldn't be able to 
> access the local system at all. And you wouldn't be able to spawn new 
> windows, either. Not all technical issues are "spurious" but some of the 
> ones bandied about certainly are.
> 
> By the way... Clearly this is about using Rev to write "stacks" that target 
> the browser... not to expect to run any Rev stack without modification 
> "within" a browser window.

Exactly.  Since there's only a subset of things which are worth putting 
into a browser window, why not use the engine already in the browser as 
the presentation layer:  JavaScript/DHTML?

>> Anyway, perhaps we can agree - there are more than spurious technical 
>> hurdles, but some of us think they would be worth it (even though I do 
>> not).
> 
> Yes...  it's a big job.

I haven't found an investor willing to back it.  Maybe I'm just not well 
connected.  I would enjoy seeing anyone able demonstrate the business 
case for this plugin with an investor willing to underwrite it.

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  Richard Gaskin
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