revEnterprise dp-5 / revMedia beta / revWeb beta

[Andre Garzia]

Richmond,

you can instantiate the palettes using an embed tag for each palette, then
you can show or hide them with javascript.

it is a hack, but it works now.


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Richmond Mathewson <
richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kevin Miller wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>>
> < snip >
>
>  A new revWeb plugin for Windows and OS X (Linux coming soon) is now
>> available from:
>>
>> http://revweb.runrev.com/
>>
>> Major changes:
>>
>> Plugin has been re-engineered. This is the third and final (for 4.0)
>> version
>> of the architecture.
>>
>> This version resolves most of the short-comings of the previous 'alpha'
>> version:
>>    - plugins can now run in multiple browsers simultaneously
>>    - orphaned processes will not be left around after plugin instances
>> quit
>>    - if a plugin causes the engine to crash/exit, the browser will not be
>> affected
>>    - system dialogs and answer alerts now layer correctly above the
>> browser
>>    - popup menus from option and buttons etc. now function correctly
>>    - separate 'WebKit' version of the plugin for running under Safari
>> (therefore 64-bit Safari on Snow Leopard works with the plugin)
>>    - the plugin works in IE Protected Mode
>>    - non-Roman languages can now be typed into fields [those requiring
>> IMEs
>> (Chinese, Japanese etc.) do not yet work on Mac OS X]
>>
>>
>>
> "the third and final (for 4.0) version"
>
> so palettised stacks in revlets are totally *@%&ed in 4.0 !
>
> This is ODD as I was led to understand that the problem with palettised
> stack
> loading behind the browser window was one of the top-priority problems.
>
> Having attended the RunRev conference in Edinburgh I returned to Bulgaria
> confident in the knowledge that I could go ahead with my development of
> a program/revlet that uses some 50-ish palettised substacks as at the
> release
> of 4.0 (about 14 days from now) all would be well.
>
> Beyond that one problem my program worked perfectly as a revlet:
> now it is totally useless and can only be developed into a fully-fledged
> standalone.
> I had intended to release my 'Sanskrit Typewriter' on a Freemium model,
> whereby the web-based version was FREE, and the standalone version, with
> more features, would be for money; the former attracting folk to buy the
> latter. That whole business model is now down the tubes; as is a lot of my
> confidence in RunRev's promises, pronouncements and so forth.
>
> One wonders why there has been so much hype about the revWeb 'thing' when,
> as development progresses it seems to lose features rather than gain them.
>
> Obviously I am (as my English grandmother used to say) "green as a cabbage
> looking."
>
> I cannot believe I am the only programmer who has got him/herself "in a
> stew"
> about this.
>
> [Well, I suppose, even if nothing else, many users of this list will learn
> some happy idioms,
> similes amd metaphors that are not included in standard EFL courses . . .
> :)     ]
>
>
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