Kevin Miller wrote:
>
> On 1/6/00 4:43 pm, LK Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Here's my suggestion re: plug-in dilemma. Maybe someone on the list
> > (Kevin? Richard? Hugh?) could put together a really nice MetaCard
> > Browser, replete with bookmarking, maybe a little news downloader, and
> > all the bells, whistles, and chrome that users expect from RealPlayer.
> > Then just put it up for free ftp somewhere. That way, many end-users
> > could have the security blanket of a stable, reliable "browser" without
> > having to put a lot of effort into it themselves. This would doubtless
> > make a lot of MetaCard users more confident that once they get their
> > stacks finished, others will be able to access them easily and reliably.
> > Thus everyone would not have to reinvent the wheel every time they wanted
> > to start some web-deployable project. I'd be happy to put my 2 cents
> > into the project if anyone is interested.
>
> This is certainly a good idea and one that we have considered. A variation
> on a theme of this would be to create a system that built this downloading
> application at the point you converted your stack into a standalone. Such a
> system could be expanding to including an easy way to design stacks that
> download media as they go, all of which is something we are considering for
> the future.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.xworlds.com/>
> Cross Worlds Computing, MetaCard Distributors, Custom Development.
> Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707.
Hi the list,
If Metacard is a so great IDE, it's probably too because it's the best
generic XTalk issue available on both Unix, MacOS and Wintel. Even if
many of us are asking for a MC web broswer's plugin and, yet, for an MC
Web broswer, it's not what i would personaly wait for.
As is, Metacard is still able to do most of what the best web
development tools are giving us (WebObjects, OmnisStudio, Visual
Interedev, etc..., even if sometime a little add-on in PHP or Perl can
help). Metacard is, even, a perfect tool to connect ODBC or SQL
databases (re:some PHP needed there...) and parse the results to the
web.
Metacard is even a great tool when some home-made server-side XML can
help to mix together to many different data sources.
The only thing i can't definitively not build in using Metacard,
Javascript, PHP and so on, are Java applets. Even, if Java is, for me,
only good in doing applets, applets are sometime realy usefull... and
generic usables in most broswers.
Here is my question : would it be possible to get, in the future, an MC
utility stack able to compile Metatalk scripting to Java applets
bytecode ? If yes, would Metacard not, no more, need any kind of plugin
(or more) to parse anything on the web ;-) ?
Regards, Pierre Sahores
CRDP de l'academie de Creteil
WEB, DB, ASP, VPN, B2B design
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