What the RunRev team could do, is offer a 64-bit version of the plug-in, while leaving the revWebPlayer application itself in 32-bit - that's the advantage of using a separate helper application inside which to run the actual stacks.
Jan Schenkel ===== Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) --- On Sun, 8/30/09, Bernard Devlin <bdrun...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Bernard Devlin <bdrun...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Snow Leopard > To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> > Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 2:40 AM > Am I right in understanding that end > users need to make a decision as > to whether or not Safari/Firefox runs as 32 bit or 64 bit? > > In my experience most users don't understand what things > like this > mean. Or even what it means for an app to be PPC, Intel or > Universal > Binary (last week I had to spend 10 minutes explaining that > difference > to a long-time Mac user). > > If the need for setting browsers to run as 32 bit is true > then anyone > relying on distributing Rev apps is in for a lot of support > calls -- > especially if browsers on Snow Leopard are running as 32 > bit by > default. > > The only appropriate solution to this would be for RunRev > to build 64 > bit versions of at least revlets, and to be able to do some > browser > detection and offer the user the appropriate revlet. > > Bernard > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Sarah > Reichelt<sarah.reich...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Was Safari set to 32 bit or 64 bit? Same for > Firefox? > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
