[FOSS] On the creation of Rev to Web tools

[Andre Garzia]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:15 PM, David Bovill <david at vaudevillecourt.tv>wrote:

> Aha - got you. Good plan for offline development - though secondary in
> terms
> of priority I'd say to having remote server based solution? NB - is the
> external based on one of the C based open source server projects?
>

The external is based on mongoose.



>
> On 15 September 2010 17:19, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
>
> > David,
> >
> > I think I was misunderstood on the two environment part. When I say web
> > server and Rev IDE I am not saying remote web server in the sense of a
> > server far away but a little process running alongside the IDE on the
> same
> > machine. Not unlike the mongrel/ruby coupling.
> >
> > You'll be working all on client side. No wasted bandwidth or extra CPU
> > power
> > required.
> >
> > You need, in my opinion, the server running to be able to develop in an
> > environment that is equal to your deployment option so that you don't end
> > up
> > with cycles such as:
> >
> > 1 - build stuff in Rev
> > 2 - convert it to web
> > 3 - run it and it does not work or does not layout right
> > 4 - back to Rev
> >
> >
> > If you're constantly building and tweeking inside a HTML5 enabled window,
> > you get the following benefits:
> >
> > 1 - You avoid any conversion need since you are already on the deployed
> > environment
> > 2 - WYSIWYG approach, what you see on the canvas is exactly what the
> client
> > will see, no need to compile or translate anything
> >
> > This way we maintain one of the strongest features of Rev which is being
> > able to develop incrementally avoiding the overhead of compile-debug-code
> > loops.
> >
> > So in summary:
> > 1 - the server is there because we need something to output as
> > real-as-possible data to a RevBrowser window inside Rev IDE where the
> > development will be done.
> >
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