On Feb 11, 2004, at 12:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Browser plugins offer no substanial benefit not already addressed by using a
standalone as a helper application.
I too am a fan of "web enabled standalone apps" as an alternative to plugins. And I have read and appreciated your article about it. But you are making quite a blanket statement there. Why be so quick to dismiss the browser plugin which could be a good thing for some Runrev developers, even if you aren't interested yourself?
A wide variety of browser plugins do exist and are beneficial for many organizations and businesses. Do a search for +GIS +"browser plugin". All kinds of plugins come up, most of which is foreign to me: SVG, WML, ExpressView, AlternaTIFF, GeoTIFF, DXF, MrSID, ACGM, Geo-DB, WxScope and on and on. You know there are organizations that need and pay for those browser plugins. Probably a lot of them could have been written with Runrev. Maybe the companies considered standalone apps, and decided in favor of browser plugins. There are all kinds of possible scenarios.
re: installed-base and walking over to the secretary's computer and your scenarios you were talking about: in larger companies with carefully tied down desktop and laptop configs, getting a browser plugin pre-installed is not a problem. Large IT departments ghost their disk images and roll-em out like a factory!
-- Alex Rice | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com
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