On Mar 14, 2006, at 6:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Josh,
Very strong statements. Wow! If I may ask for further
clarification... I have two questions I'd love you expound upon.
1) RealBasic -- that's the main rival, as I see it. I haven't
written big enough apps to test, but it seem that the compiler is
pretty fast. I wonder how they compare in development and upkeep of
for database projects. What are your thoughts about the 2
development environments?
We developed a product in RealBasic a few years ago and never
released it- (Director was not OS X compatible yet and so not an
option). At that time (several years ago) we found the compiler slow
and the general performance atrocious (rollover graphics working
intermittently, slowly, sticking on over or down states, QT movies
stuttering.
Of course a lot may have changed since then...
2) Revolution vs Ruby on Rails? You mean to say you use Revolution
to write browser enabled web-apps? Something I could access with
Firefox? If so, I'd love to hear more.
Read Richard Gaskin's article about "Beyond the Browser". <http://
www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/netapps.html> Everyone is going
nuts over Web 2.0, AJAX, Ruby on Rails... sure, for many applications
(like, a website for example!) running something in a browser makes
sense.
For any serious business or media application, all the days of trying
to make Javascript work across browsers, degrade gracefully, etc. can
be better spent making the app better!
Just like you have to download iTunes, RealPlayer, Google Earth,
etc., an independent executable that communicates with a remote
shared database makes way more sense to me than trying to force a
browser to do more than pictures and text.
The exception is Flash, an amazing technology that runs in a browser,
but sadly, the dev environment seems more suited for masochists than
people who just want the job done... before lunch.
Just my .03 (inflation)
Thanks again for you very insightful comments. I really appreciate
them.
Michael
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