Recently, william humphrey wrote: > I just wrote a fairly long rant about the USER space on RunRev
Fully agreed. I think everybody knows RevOnline is long overdue for an overhaul. My guess is, it's a resources issue -- RunRev needs guys to work on bug fixes, new features, and other related stuff, so RevOnline takes a back seat. > How do you think the market for RunRev is defined? Is it 95% > developers and 5% hobbyists? I don't know about the market as a whole, but the recently held developer's conference was something of a surprise in terms of users' experience. The preconference programming day was originally going to be very rudimentary, but surveys discovered that users were more experienced with Revolution/Hypercard/development than was expected. Obviously attendees of the conference make up a very small percentage of actual users, but there may be a trend of increased user experience indicated there. > Since my only experience in programming is with hypercard (and most > programmers say that isn't programming) and with web stuff like PHP > JAVAscript which has thousands of carefully indexed examples that you can > just snip and paste into your projects then I am really not the one to > answer this question. Aside from the World Wide Web Consortium, I would say the "carefully indexed" examples you mention are often created by 3rd parties. FWIW, in almost all the non-Rev projects I do, I wind up having to scour the Web for hours through these aforementioned indexes to find samples of code, and even then, samples that work in my particular situation. I've found no one-stop cure-all Javascript resource, no single Flash ActionScript archive that covers it all (not even Adobe), and I would say the same applies to Revolution. 3rd parties are key. If you haven't seen it already, there is a Revolution Search Engine option in Rev's Help menu that contains links to 20 or so 3rd party reference sites. Perhaps this could be an additional help resource for you. Of course, there's always this list which has some of the most helpful folks on the 'net. But the bottom line is, yes, RevOnline is nowhere near what it needs to be. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution