After reading some comments on ruby on rails it's not just the difference in language niceties compared to their parent languages that makes them preferable to rev for those guys...
It's also the fact that they make web-development easier. With the help of the old cgi system in metacard, I wrote an html tagging system to create forms and web pages based on dynamic content retrieved with shell calls encapsulated in a modular mt file. opentable closetable openform writebutton etc... pulling information further from rev stacks is not hard and it's all in xtalk. In the long run it was far easier to make and use MC's guis... Web things are, well, not so dynamic and interaction friendly imoho... If we wrote a cms system like tiki wiki in a revplayer stack, put it's contents and script updates into a cgi bin, wouldn't we have a certain attractive xtalk solution for the slashdot crowd? One the other hand, if we showed that via html you could download a Rev client that runs web or cgi code, it would be as intersting for the secure minded web transactions many use today... And rev stacks are harder to hack maybe but above all it's multiplatform... We can go places java and flash can't go for many business uses. We have as many features as web clients. But we can go offline and they can't really... Ajax also seems to download on demand, but no net connection, no ajax... Am I wrong? viva la Revolution! Xavier http://monsieurx.com/taoo _______________________________________________ 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