RevWeb, IE and saving data

[Richard Miller]

Found the solution... and it's an easy fix for the user. The user needs 
to bring up the Security tab in the IE options menu, click on "Local 
Intranet", then just add our web site using the "Sites" button. Don't 
know why this works, but it does. No problem writing to disk after doing 
this.

Fortunately, it's easy for the revlet to detect this problem as soon as 
it starts up, simply by attempting to write and retrieve a file to the 
users computer. The solution can then be explained.

Richard... I agree with you about the horrendous warning that a revlet 
brings up. The only solution we know is to explain the warning to the 
user in advance. That should draw most of them in to proceeding. Of 
course, in our case, the user has some familiarity with our company. If 
they didn't, that warning message might still scare many away, even 
after explaining to them it's safe to proceed.

Richard Miller




On 7/19/10 11:04 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> It's not a practical solution for this app. The app is displaying 
> personal video data of the user (sports videos... golf, baseball, 
> tennis swings, etc.). The user needs to be able to bring these videos 
> up immediately... not have to wait for each to be downloaded each time 
> the user wants to view one. I don't see any way around the need for 
> local storage.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
> On 7/19/10 10:54 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Richard Miller wrote:
>>
>>> I'd really like to hear from Revolution management as to when this will
>>> be fixed. The usefulness of revlets is severely limited if you can't 
>>> use
>>> them to save any data to disk under Internet Explorer. I may be missing
>>> some solution to this, but I can't find it.
>>
>> Would it be at all possible to store that data on the server like any 
>> other web app would do?
>>
>> The biggest obstacle to adoption of the RevWeb plugin is the truly 
>> frightening warning dialog which is absolutely necessary when a 
>> server-based component attempts to write anything it wants to a 
>> user's local drive:
>>
>> <http://revjournal.com/blog.irv?pid=1262632837.378884>
>>
>> It simplifies your user's experience, and benefits the Rev community 
>> as a whole, to use server storage wherever possible.
>>
>> -- 
>>  Richard Gaskin
>>  Fourth World
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