On 5/31/00 10:29 PM, Craig Spooner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One more thought about this... I know the dreadful history of
> SuperCard's Web plugin and wouldn't want to see MC step into the same
> hole. But it seems to me (in my utter ignorance of the programming
> required to accomplish this) that MetaCard, with its cross-platform
> architecture, has already leapt over that obstacle. I'm sure that's
> a simplistic view, but it "feels" like it would be accurate. Am I
> right?
I would think so. SuperCard biggest problem is that it only works reliably
on a platform that addresses 6% of the potential audience, and relatively
little of the audience in large corporate installations where a plugin might
be attractive.
With MC's beautifully multi-platform code base, this obstacle was overcome
years ago.
The remaining challenge is whether it is worth Raney's investment to crawl
through three or more code bases (for each OS) and if-def the hell out of it
to make a plugin build. If done in this manner, it should be a significant
investment only once, with subsequent builds based on the build flag.
Scott, attractive?
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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