Geoff Canyon wrote:
>
> It appears that on 1/28/00 5:14 PM, andu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >So, you would like to have a MC browser. I'm 90% sure it could be done, I
>
> But I don't want just an MC browser. There are word processing beans,
> spreadsheet beans, JDBC for accessing databases, graphics beans that do
> things we can't currently, and lots of other things. The browser was just
> one (startling, to me) example. There are a _lot_ of people interested in
> beans, and _very few_ people interested in XCMDs/DLLs.
Well said. I agree that forward-thinking types (aka the leaders of
technoculture and business) in general are looking for things that will
take us to their own respective versions of the future. Whatever the
overlap among their visions, most seem to believe that Java takes us
toward that. And if MC could ride the momentum of that belief and
convert some of it into sales, we'd all be better off.
MC removes so many of the usability barriers that are native to other
tools of its capability; in doing so, it enables visionary thinking. I
better quit - I feel a "preach" comin' on!
>
> I've had several conversations with clients now where I had to defend
> MetaCard versus another technology. If the client says, "But with Java we
> have access to this or that capability," it would be nice to be able to
> reply, "We can do the same thing in MetaCard," _even if_ we end up doing
> it without Java or beans.
>
> MetaCard is a great tool. The more I look at other tools, the happier I
> am with it. But there are things MetaCard doesn't do that Java Beans can,
> and if it would be (relatively) simple to get those things into MetaCard,
> that could only be good.
>
> gc
>
> Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "C.D. Caterpillar teaches kids how to read, not how to watch cartoons."
>
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