Rodeo: 1st naive question.

[Peter Alcibiades]

It seems to be an alternative to Rev, not a complement to it.  When fully
featured, you will write code in a different IDE, and it will run on any OS
that has an HTML5 compatible browser.  That is, it will run on all but
hobbyist OSs, and it will run in all mainstream browsers.

You will not need a copy of Rev or Media to either run the resulting code,
or to write it.

It seems to be a response to the banning of Rev apps from the Apple App
Store, but it does not offer any way of bypassing that and getting Rev apps
onto iPhone or iPad.  The response is to move to a different programming
language and environment which does not require the App Store for
distribution.

There seem to be two rather loose connexions to Rev.  The first appears to
be that you can port your Rev application automatically, at least in part,
to this new language.  One can imagine that automated ports from other
languages will appear also in HTML5 authoring tools.  The choice of Rev as
the first to port seems to come from its origins in the banning of this
particular language and the consequent disappointment of the Rodeo authors. 

The second is what one might call a marketing connexion:  those most
disappointed by the banning of Rev from the App Store are a natural early
adopter market for a product which will allow programs to be written for
iPad and iPhone, which do not require membership of the App Store.

The concept of easy to write cross platform HTML5 apps is very interesting,
but its an alternative to Rev, its not an extension to it.  It would be a
very interesting addition to Rev if instead of compiling for the Web, and
for plugin enabled browsers, one were able to compile to HTML5.  Doubtless
that day will come.  At that point, the two languages will be competitors.
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