Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

[Luis]

> Andre wrote:
> one will be running on the "real thing". As far as my experience goes 
> with Revolution Player, if any user needs to use my software, he will 
> gladly download the player, he acknowledges no difference between 
> downloading a player and a plugin. The player is less work for RunRev as 
> a windows player will work in every windows, a browser plugin will 
> depend on the browser version. So I'd rather use the Revolution player 
> than a plugin.

Yup, I don't see much difference here either.

> 
> The idea of making the engine generate java bytecodes is very 
> entertaining because this would enable us to use revolution to build 
> servlets for our web server end, midlets for our cellphone or pda 
> programming and applets for those that really want to be confined to a 
> browser canvas. I don't know much about java bytecodes although I put a 
> book specially about generating java bytecodes from languages that are 
> not java in my Safari bookshelf. The idea is very nice except for the 
> fact that the WHOLE RUNTIME REVOLUTION ENGINE WOULD NEED TO BE 
> REWRITTEN, sorry for the all caps, but we needed emphasys. To create

Nope, that's one approach. Generating bytecodes does _not_ require an 
engine rewrite.

Cheers,

Luis.