--- On Thu, 11/12/09, Dom <[email protected]> wrote: > Jan Schenkel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > With revMedia 4.0 being free, why would we still need > a Player? > > Agreed -- but with a caveat: > you talk of persons who are computer-litterate... > > Think about a person, scared with computers, to which you > give a > stack... and ? > a whole development package?? > > Or a classroom, as Richmond says! > > Maybe, also, the question is beginning to go obsolete -- > who, nowadays, > still gives stacks to other persons? on a disc*, perhaps? > > A bunch of years ago, I put some HyperCard (and MetaCard) > stacks on the > web, along with a "Player" or StackRunner (before the epoch > where an > official one was available) > > It seems to that RunRev is going to evolve to the net -- > and it's good > :-) > Sure, with a revlet immediately available on the net, there > is no need > for a Player ;-) > > * Apple recently clarified the difference between a "disc" > and a "disk" > ;-) >
While I agree with you in priciple thata a pure player environment is safest for computer users without technical knowledge, revMedia is not that different from the original HyperCard setup. I don't think double-clicking or going to the File menu to Open a stack, is that difficult to grasp. Now for deployment, a revlet is fine in an internet-connected world - and you can even send people a zip archive with an html page and a revlet that they can run offline, as long as the have the revWeb plugin. And you can still buy revStudio/revEnterprise if you want to build standalone applications. Jan Schenkel ===== Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
