> I am totally blown away, Adrian. WOW! > > That's a feature many of us have been clamouring for, > for a long time now. I even begged Scott (MetaCard) to > create an HMTL-player component but, even after many > lenghty discussions, Scott could not be persuaded to > do it. So, among other things, this makes FreeCard > unique when compared with MetaCard and RunRev.
Yeah, I thought you'd like that. :) This is the big advantage of Java, we don't have to implement our own engine and reinvent the wheel again - it's all been done for us, we just map FreeCard on top of the Java VM and we're done. There are certainly some tricky things for us to deal with but I'm very confident that I can make it all come together. > I can imagine all kinds of Web/Stack combinations. At > the very least, FreeCard users will be able to easily > prototype their own custom web browsers for surfing > the web. Much simpler browsers that don't exhibit the > same overwhelming complexity as Netscape and Explorer > assault us with. This will be a tremendous feature in > Education, particularly for the younger learners. > Almost everyone, really, because everyone is fed up > with bloat. > > This feature definitely makes my job of selling xCard > as a serious R&D approach in Education a much easier > job. Everyone is tripping on the Web, and any > thing/ware that isn't viewable with a web-browser is > almost immediately rejected these days. Now, with > FreeCard, the web-browser will be in our wares. Bah, you ain't seen nothing yet! Why make people load up FreeCard and browse the web from there? Why not browse the web with your browser of choice and when they get to your page, hey presto! a FreeCard stack loads? Oh, and I've already implemented that functionality. :) Another big reason I like having Java as a backend. Of course, right now that feature is pretty tricky to use and the Stack will popup in a new window instead of sitting in the browser itself but it's not a bad start. Once I get the runtime engine finished off, I can start looking at adding an interface to it and that will a) be when FreeGUI and FreeCard merge into a finished product and b) I add a fairly simple JavaScript file to the mix which allows you to embed a FreeCard stack into a web page with just one simple JavaScript call. > Alain Farmer Adrian Sutton. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Freecard-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecard-general
