Terry Judd wrote: > > >Terry Judd wrote: > >> > >> >They both do the same thing using the same engine, maybe not too obvious > >> >to you, except that Metacard is stable and the development environment > >> >is geared towards a more mature audience. > >> > >> Mature? > > > >Well yes, Metacard is a simple, efficient, stable development > >environment which has just enough controls and tools to help an author > >get the job done, Rev is supposed to do the same thing except that you > >never know if it's your script's error message or the environment's. Not > >to mention that from the time you click something to something actually > >happening is a long time. > >Besides, there is something about Rev that leaves the false impression > >that all one has to do is click a few buttons here and there and have an > >application, which has more to do with marketing then authoring. > >Then there is the support issue: per incident replies as opposed to per > >week replies seem to me more desirable. > >People who buy glitz are immature at best, IMHO. > > I agree that MC's IDE is more stable than Rev's (though not > necessarily more mature)
Seems we have a misunderstanding with the word mature, in this context I'm referring to a *balance* between clean code, speed, features, so by all these measures (maybe less the last one) MetaCard is more mature. > although I'm betting (I bought Rev rather > than MC) that Rev's stability will improve substantially over the > next few months - at the end of which I'll have a tool with which I > can be more productive. Certainly a bug free environment will make a difference, if the number of controls is proportional to the increase in productivity you'll find out. > > I don't usually go for glitz - but I did buy Rev - does this mean I'm > immature or??? Good question;-) > -- > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Dr Terry Judd > > Lecturer in Instructional Design / Multimedia Developer > Biomedical Multimedia Unit > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences > The University of Melbourne > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: 03 9344 0187 > Fax: 03 9344 4998 > ___________________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard -- __________________________ Regards, Andu _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
