Revolution Media Presentation Viewable on Web?

[Richard Gaskin]

GregSmith wrote:

> So, for the Revolution author who wants to take advantage of all of the
> authoring prowess of Revolution, yet wants to also enjoy the added benefit
> of regular sales transactions  he or she might be best served by a
> compromise in the form of a standard browser plug-in, which fully displays
> all of the functionality of a Revolution stack

Check the list archives. :)  The short form is that the browser plugin 
wars were won by Macromedia more than half a decade ago.  If you need 
Flash it's not expensive and there are a great many templates, 
courseware packages, etc.

The issue with making yet-another-browser-plugin is that while bean 
counters like how it reads on paper, users and their IT staff quickly 
learn that it's no different from a custom browser:  they still need to 
download and install some engine to drive it all.

Only Flash is pre-installed -- a good route to go with if you need the 
in-browser experience.

> . . . or, better yet, a translator which exports the fully
> functional Revolution stack into a format
> like Flash or QuickTime.

Or even Java, which may be a closer fit in a lot of ways, and there's a 
lot of example code on generating byte code.

Yeah, I'd like this option for some things.  There may even be a feature 
request filed in Bugzilla for this.  I wonder how many votes it's gotten.

In the meantime, for Web deployment it's hard to beat Flash, just as for 
desktop applications it's hard to beat Rev.  I suppose it'd be ideal to 
have one tool that does everything optimally, but since both tools are 
pretty cheap and (at least in my work) it's rare that I'd want to make 
the same thing for web deployment and as a desktop app, maybe two tools 
isn't a deal breaker for either.....

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