good Rev demos

[Sivakatirswami]

Colin:

go to "http://www.hinduismtoday.com/digital/

subscribe (its free) and download the Digital Edition of Hinduism Today.

The site is a very retro 1997 design (we are working on that... will be 
launching a new site later this year) but Hinduism Today Digital 
Edition  (HTDE) "rocks" for those who

a) are willing to install an executable
b) have the bandwidth

Of course this app is not content, in and of itself, it's a content 
delivery system, so if your Flash crowd are purely "creative" and not 
interested in the "big picture" then, like Mark says, they may just "shrug"

The whole thing is Revolution from end to end-- (well almost, the back 
end subscription dBase is PostGreSQL--but CGI that handle registration, 
delivery, the executable that is installed  etc. is all Revolution.

The "must run in a browser" sentiment is softening. In fact, the 
conventional wisdom now is: if you *can* get users to download an 
executable, its *way* better that they have a "sticky" application on 
the client machine that "locks in" your users in a way that a regular 
web site can never do...there's a growing segment of web users who are 
pretty sick of the info glut and are happy to be able to go off line and 
use your sticky app that is focus on a single content theme instead of 
staring at a 4 column web page with 150 links squeezed onto a single 
screen. So, both are important elements in an enterprise delivery system.

At any rate... I really don't think that building the same HTDE app in 
Flash
would even be remotely possible in any reasonable time frame. The beauty 
of it is:
You are working in a single language across the entire framework (minus 
a  few shell calls to do the PostGreSQL queries... i.e. you do need to 
know a bit  of SQL talk..)

Andre recently ramped up the Media Viewer stack in HTDE... the UI that 
is generate by the executable is installed on the client machine, but 
when you click on "View Multi-media" you get a stack downloaded over the 
net, and it then in turn downloads another small data base stack with 
all the meta data for the media viewer. I believe others are doing 
similar things and are in fact way ahead of us... but, it works... 
Again, this is a delivery framework... not content as such... so its a 
"different animal" ... but shows possibilities.


b) Colin Holgate wrote:
> At 4:18 PM +0200 4/10/08, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
>> I still think you should specify your demand a bit more, as just 
>> asking for every rev application on the planet is not a good way to 
>> get information about those that you actually want.
>
> I think I have enough leads now! It is a bit abstract a request, I 
> know, but I want to show things that are both not a stereotypical 
> HyperCard like stack, and not something that a Flash person would say 
> "oh I could do that in about 10 minutes in Flash". The more like a 
> standard OSX app they look the better, because even if you could do 
> something on those lines in Flash, it would no doubt have that 
> Flash-like feel to it, enough to not feel like a real application.
>
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