> there is still one thing you can do to fight the legacy of X-Talksprejudice:
DISPLAY THE MADE WITH RUN REV IMAGE ON EVERY APPLICATION YOU RELEASE!
If you run away from the issue and try to hide you applications' roots, your efforts can only work against the long-term success & acceptance of the platform you use to build that application.
I would agree wholeheatedly if tempered to read:
Display the "Made with RunRev" notice in every About box
This has less to do "hiding" than simply message relevance:
99.99% of my customers and my clients' customers are not software developers and never will be. In a noisy world staying on message is critical, and the About box is a part of the branding message for the developer delivering it.
Adding other graphic treatments confuses the message without providing much real benefit to anyone (not to mention what it can do to one's color palette choices).
The good folks at RunRev wisely recognize this, requiring only the text:
Made with Runtime Revolution Portions (c) 2004 Runtime Revolution Ltd.
This is how professinoal development tools and libraries are credited, from MacApp to THINK C to CodeWarrior. The folks at RunRev have seen how much contention was caused by Allegiant's logo requirement, and how many deals were lost by Director's harsh About box requirements (don't get Chipp started on that <g>).
The 0.01% of folks looking at my About box to see what I'm developing with will find what they're looking for easily.
A third-party's About box is a poor substitute for effective marketing, and just scares off potential customers.
If one really wants to support Rev effectively there's a much more visible way to do it: consider adding a page at your site offering Rev info, tools, or even just a description of how your clients benefit from your using Rev. Your About box only goes as far as you can throw it, but Google is everywhere....
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com
Well said, Richard. As much as I like and depend on MC/Rev, it is just a development tool and most people do not give a damn what a given program was developed with as long as it does what they want and how they want it. Best advertisement among developers is word of mouth and a proven track. However, anyone who considers switching to Rev and checks the archives of this list will see numerous discussions of glitches and workabouts. I am not saying that this is necessarily much different for other languages/development tools but the promise and power of Rev is to reduce those.
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