Dear List members, I have just posted the following to Kevin:
What some people are saying on the List at this moment confirms what I pointed out in my notes: Windows programmers (about 90% of the market?) can easily be scared away by the MAC dominance of RunRev and its community/ lieutenants. All my notes really called for (technically) was what I have been used to in VB for many years, a standard which is different (and higher in some respects) than the MAC-oriented one emanating from RunRev. One such standard in comparison with VB was the availability of a Programmer's Transcript/IDE Reference Manual (1) and a Programmer's RunRev Guide (2), supplied at no extra cost with the IDE in order to form a complete product (implying that anything less represents an incomplete product). Now what I see on the List is a discussion of what can be done with Dan and his books! These are my suggestions (bearing in mind of course that I know absolutely nothing of RunRev's finances, but you do not seem to be doing too badly): 1) This obviously very able author should not be frustrated or (heaven forbid) be allowed to slip through RunRev's fingers! 2) Pay the man generously to do the crucial job of completing the RunRev product with the Guide (2 above) in 3 volumes. I would also like to see this Guide (a) available first in HTML form on the Internet; (b) available in CHM form (another Windows standard) for free download, not only by Rev clients but also by Rev PROSPECTIVE clients. For notes on how to Make the CHM format available to MAC and Unix/Linux users, please go to http://xchm.sourceforge.net/index.html . It's not perfectly straightforward, but I am sure your programmers could work it out. None of this precludes the practice (later) of making the hard copies available at extra cost. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution