revEnterprise dp-5 / revMedia beta / revWeb beta

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 15:11:56 EDT 2009


Andre Garzia wrote:
> 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.
>   
Well, that is obviously what I will have to do, although it doesn't make
me any happier; especially as I know absolutely no javascript.

Presumably by "embed tag" you are referring to HTML ???
>
> 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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