Re: MC web portal?
On 6/6/01 8:42 pm, Richard Herz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, an *IDEA*. What about MC Corp and/or RunRev posting an MC/Rev access engine (simpler for an interested person to deal with than the Starter Kit). This engine would download a directory from an MC/Rev web portal (and sell advertising, and?). The user could then access all sorts of stacks supplied by many users and developers that display, in an active way, the power of MC: demos, useful things like calendars and calculators, chat/ IM stacks, bulletin boards, etc. This might be a more effective marketing tool than one static screen shot representing each stack. A true, official Revolution Player will be available in the timescale indicated on the schedule on our web site. This will allow you to download a standalone engine we have prepared for each platform, said engine will request a stack or URL when you run it and will have a number of useful Internet library functions built in. Regards, Kevin Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! Tel: +44 (0)131 718 4333. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
MC web portal?
I am working on deploying interactive educational modules via the web using MC as opposed to Java applets in a browser (Java applets of scientific simulations I have seen on the web are slow and unreliable, not to mention other drawbacks of Java vs. MC). After frustrating attempts to get MC working reliably as a helper application (the various web browsers' fault, not MC's), I decided that the best strategy was to have a student download a minimal standalone engine that bootstraps from there. My modest initial experiments with MC web communication are posted at: http://www-mae.ucsd.edu/research/herz/web_test/ Amazingly simple to implement the basics in MetaCard! A much more developed (and beautiful!) implementation of this approach is available at the Himalayan Academy: http://www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/ Now, an *IDEA*. What about MC Corp and/or RunRev posting an MC/Rev access engine (simpler for an interested person to deal with than the Starter Kit). This engine would download a directory from an MC/Rev web portal (and sell advertising, and?). The user could then access all sorts of stacks supplied by many users and developers that display, in an active way, the power of MC: demos, useful things like calendars and calculators, chat/ IM stacks, bulletin boards, etc. This might be a more effective marketing tool than one static screen shot representing each stack. Rich Herz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
