Moving Rev apps to the web (why isn't this on the horizon?)

Mikey mikeythek at gmail.com
Sat Oct 13 09:29:10 EDT 2007


All,

Can you count the number of commercially available Ajax visual RAD/IDE
tools?  There is a reason why you can count them on one hand.  It's
because it's a difficult problem that has taken three years after
Gmail to crack this nut, and most of those solutions, well, suck.

In the case of Morfik, the one that filed patents on the technology,
it's taken almost a decade.

It sounds great and easy, but it isn't.  The Web isn't like the
desktop.  The web is stateless.  There is no way around that.  You can
try to patch the web into something that has some idea of what state
is, but it is by design comprised of non-sequitor transactions.

Browsers are not deployable executables with compiled code.

RR will eventually get there, but my own bet is that it will be
because someone in the community writes a hack, because RR is
hackable, and innovation comes from people who smell opportunity, not
from companies that see a pile of bug fixes that is ever-growing and
never-decreasing, and can see how difficult it will be to take an
existing product and make it do something completely different.  Maybe
RR is not the typical development company in that regard.  I'm betting
I'm right, though.

We already have RevOnRockets.  Someone is going to take that and try
to make it spit JS, DHTML, PHP, etc.  It's just going to take a while.



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