>-Does your scripting language get converted to Java or some other native
>language that will run in current browsers?
Not directly in a browser window, but with built-in HTTP support (and
soon, raw TCP) one can build Internet connectivity directly in your app,
without the encumbrance of being confined to the browser window (for
CBTs, the browser is often too flexible and hampers the guiding of the
learner).
>-Is the Metacard company responsive to your concerns and requests?
ToolBook: Took three days just to document TB's unnecssarily complicated
boot sequence , and ultimately I wrote this documentation myself from
notes with Asym TS folks; it seems they don't document "the little
things". :)
MetaCard: I can't recall any question that too longer than 24 hours to
get an answer, often much quicker (Scott Raney is pretty amazing about
email turnaround).
>-How stable is Metacard in the development mode?
There seem to be more instances in which script errors can cause a crash
than with some other interpreted tools, but there haven't been that many
and they seem fewer with each build. Today this stability seems roughly
on par with my experience with ToolBook (and virtually all other Windows
apps; you might find it even more stable developing on UNIX).
>-Does it have a large overhead for CD distribution?
Tiny, and simple: A single 2 MB exe is embedded into your stack file.
Contrast this with ToolBook, which requires a complicated install that
spews things all over the user's hard drive and weighs in many times
larger.
>-Is converting from PC to Mac, UNIX etc...reliable and easy?
UNIX is a tad tricker given that most UNIX users have a higher resolution
than Mac or Windows folks. But aside from this sizing issue (a function
of the OSes rather than MC itself), once you learn a couple things like
working with menuGroups it's a snap.
- Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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