Ray Horsley wrote:
> I'm in the K-12 education field. Teachers are quickly moving away
> from downloading anything and their IT guys are even worse, sometimes
> setting up systems which disallow downloading a desktop app. I
> hadn't looked at building for Web in a while but this is very
> discouraging to find it's gone. I had hoped it had been cleaned up
> since I last worked with it, not abandoned.
If it's gone someone should let RunRev know:
<http://www.runrev.com/products/web/>
> From what I see the education industry is not the only area moving
> rapidly toward doing everything in a browser. Healthcare, finance,
> you name it, everybody spends most of the day in browsers today.
> Does this mean the majority of us Livecoders are doing nothing more
> than writing mobile apps?
Ironically, a mobile app is very much like the most viable, flexible,
and cost-effective alternative to RevWeb: net-savvy standalones.
Whether the LiveCode engine is wrapped as a browser plugin or your own
standalone, either way it'll need institutional buy-in to get your
stacks distributed.
Any org that will allow a third-party binary browser plugin should also
allow a standalone.
Like the browser plugin, a standalone can easily download stacks from a
server, even compressed stacks for quick delivery.
But unlike a browser you have far more options:
Your users can enjoy the flexibility any desktop app has in terms of a
UI dedicated for its workflow, along with local file access and other
traditional app features, which can be used to provide an offline mode,
smart caching, and more.
And if needed, a standalone can be more secure than a browser: just
turn on the secureMode as the first line in your startup handler, and
your app will be prevented from many any changes at all on the local
machine.
I suspect that most of the laments from not being able to use RevWeb for
deployment fall into two camps:
a) Devs who've had to work with orgs run by dumb really dumb IT staff
who somehow think that a proprietary binary executable that's called a
"browser plugin" is somehow inherently safer than an application
b) Devs who haven't really pursued such conversations with their clients
seriously, so the issue is largely just theoretical for them.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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