I suppose expecting a revlet to act like a sniffer dog and detect an
end-user's web-browser (OS, version number, . . . . ),
an end-user's preferences for that browser, and attempt to modify them
is too much to hope for for quite a while.
What would happen, then, if the end-user did not have the helper app the
revlet programmer wished to use on their
computer, would the revlet "reach out" to the relevant website and start
downloading the appropriate version for
the end-user's OS?
If for no other very good reason I can see the main objection to this
being that I for one wouldn't really want all sorts
of revlets (as well as other plug-in stuff from other RADs) merrily
playing pat-ball with my helper app settings and
stuffing my hard disks, willy-nilly, with all sorts of "helper apps"
that might, in the long term, not be of much help at all
(except for the nonce) and make my system grind to a halt because the
hard disks don't have enough swap space
left to function properly. It all seems, oddly enough, to open the way
to nasty characters using revlets as virus-delivery
devices.
If a revlet in my browser pops up a dialog window that says "Permit
download of Fastplay", my first inclination (being
fairly naive) is to assume that because it comes from Runtime Revolution
it is OK; but, of course it doesn't come
from RR, it comes from a programmer who owns (or has got his/her sweaty
paws on a pirate copy) RR, and may be
up to nothing very good at all.
Sorry if this all seems very poisonous and negative, but . . .
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Sivakatirswami wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
snip
Agree, an unhobbled option would be very useful.
I've also proposed in the past that this helper application/Player,
just like iTunes only comes from Apple, (Real Player from Real, Flash
from Adobe etc.) be available from an "official" RunRev site.
I can see security issues being of some concern, obviously, but if
Apple and Adobe can do it, why not RunRev in Edinburgh?
Does it require anything from them?
In Firefox one can assign a default application to run downloaded
files of a given type. IIRC such a setting is available in IE and
Safari as well.
Providing instructions to the user is one way, but it would be ever so
cool to be able to have it "just work", as iTunes links do.
There must be some way, even if it requires a one-time explicit
approval from the user, to allow an app to set this up for them.
--
snip
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