Alex Rice wrote: > On Feb 12, 2004, at 12:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Because unless it's bundled it will still need to be downloaded, and >> if one needs to download and install something it could just as well >> provide multiple window, menus, and other options not possible in a >> browser. >> >> Look at the number of plugins in '98, and how few are left today. >> Bundling is the advantage of plugins. Without bundling, an engine's >> an engine.... > > It's not such a black and white issue.
Nor is it theoretical. SuperCard had a plugin. Aside from some novelty use it was never popular even at sites with a heavy SC install. Like most companies that have ever made a plugin, they don't bother anymore. > You are talking about average-joe-consumer out there with Windows 98, > and generalizing that to say there is no advantage to browser plugins, > period. I disagree. You have the sum of your experience which leads to your opinions, I have mine. Disagreement from time to time is a healthy indicator of active minds. > Look at IT departments that ghost their systems for rollouts. No > downloading of plugins required. In fact downloading may not be > allowed. In fact- public www access may not even be allowed! > Corporations are strange places. Indeed, especially those whose IT department can ghost a browser installation yet not be able to include a helper app with it. ;) I never said a plugin was completely useless. I only said that it offers no significant advantage over what can be done right now. Even if a plugin could somehow do everything a helper app can, the helper app still has one advantage to solving real-world problems today: it exists. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
