It seems to be an alternative to Rev, not a complement to it. When fully featured, you will write code in a different IDE, and it will run on any OS that has an HTML5 compatible browser. That is, it will run on all but hobbyist OSs, and it will run in all mainstream browsers.
You will not need a copy of Rev or Media to either run the resulting code, or to write it. It seems to be a response to the banning of Rev apps from the Apple App Store, but it does not offer any way of bypassing that and getting Rev apps onto iPhone or iPad. The response is to move to a different programming language and environment which does not require the App Store for distribution. There seem to be two rather loose connexions to Rev. The first appears to be that you can port your Rev application automatically, at least in part, to this new language. One can imagine that automated ports from other languages will appear also in HTML5 authoring tools. The choice of Rev as the first to port seems to come from its origins in the banning of this particular language and the consequent disappointment of the Rodeo authors. The second is what one might call a marketing connexion: those most disappointed by the banning of Rev from the App Store are a natural early adopter market for a product which will allow programs to be written for iPad and iPhone, which do not require membership of the App Store. The concept of easy to write cross platform HTML5 apps is very interesting, but its an alternative to Rev, its not an extension to it. It would be a very interesting addition to Rev if instead of compiling for the Web, and for plugin enabled browsers, one were able to compile to HTML5. Doubtless that day will come. At that point, the two languages will be competitors. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Rodeo-1st-naive-question-tp2301710p2302012.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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