On Jul 2, 2006, at 9:22 PM, GregSmith wrote:
Though I've only been reading this forum for a short time, I've now
got the
definite impression that the Revolution environment is for
developers -
hard core developers . . . well, programmers - hard core
programmers . .
. not weak, infantile users like myself, who could never program
their way
out of a paper sack. O.K., I was profoundly mistaken in thinking
there was
any validity to creating simple, in-browser content made with
Revolution.
It is obviously a much more sophisticated tool intended for a much
more
sophisticated audience.
I think you may have gotten the wrong impression; Revolution, while
not HyperCard, is, IMHO, very usable by reasonably competent users as
well as by "hard core programmers" to make what it was intended for,
desktop software. I have no doubt that you could create a useful Rev
stack in a short time if you decided you wanted to even if you have
never written a program before. There is no doubt that Rev is a
powerful environment that can and is used by sophisticated "hard core
programmers" to create sophisticated software but that doesn't make
it unusable by us lesser mortals.
However, Rev is not software for rendering "in-browser content."
That's not what it's intended for. It might be very cool if someday
someone created a browser plugin to render Rev window content in a
browser but the fact that it is not available today does not mean
that it is only intended for a "much more sophisticated audience."
Nor does the fact that its programming language can be used by
relatively sophisticated users for scripting CGI's mean that it's
suitable for rendering html whether by hard core programmers or by
weak, infantile users (although anyone who really is a weak,
infantile user would be unlikely to have ever found there way here in
the first place.)
In concluding that because Rev is not a good tool for creating
simple, in-browser content and therefore it is only for hard core
programmers, you are comparing apples and oranges. Such a conclusion
makes no more sense that complaining than would condemning Word
because it can't be used to do photoediting; there are lots of
reasons to complain about Word but that would not be one of them.
Spence
James P. Spencer
Rochester, MN
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Badges?? We don't need no stinkin badges!"
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