Dear Peter and All,
I would'nt be too negative but two Rebol geeks of my friends could
explain lots about the Rebol IE plug-in (Olivier Auverlot, the writer
of the french's Eyrolles Rebol programmers reference book, and
François Jouen of the "Ecole Pratiques de Hautes-Etudes" institute).
In short, this plug-in is probably not dedicated to be used as a
professional grade tool.
Best,
The problem wiht rebol is that it is yet another plug-in. The
reason schools (for example) want web/browser-delivered content is
that they don't have to go in and touch every workstation.
If Rev could deliver a stack via DHTML/AJAX, that would be the ideal!
I was even pondering writing my own Rev tool to create a Rev stack
and an DHTML/AJAX version of the same thing.
At 01:58 PM 6/28/2006, you wrote:
Dan Shafer wrote:
>
Delivering a Rev stack/app in DHTML would be
such an awesome tool that I'd use it daily.
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If you chappies discussing this thread (most of which is above my
head) think that comparison would be of any value, I suggest you
visit -
http://www.rebol.com
- to see what Carl Sassenrath is doing. Click on the following link:
New REBOL Browser Plugin - New!
New capabilities! Plus support for Firefox/Mozilla/Etc. and Opera
Further information on this development can be found under Carl's
Blog entitled "Browser Plugin Update".
The Windows only version is very much older, and you can see a
demo of it (including the fully automatic installation of the
plugin) at my own site:
http://www.howsoft.com/runrev/vector_graphics_in_revolution.htm
Scroll down to the picture of my sister-in-law's knitting machine
and you will find the instructions for the demo:
"The above shows a Rebol program (script) running via a plugin in
the Internet Explorer/altBrowser. It's a slideshow with 10 raster
images. If you want to see how this works in the Internet Explorer
using a PC (and also in an altBrowser stack once you acquire it),
simply navigate to http://www.howsoft.com/photos for a demo. Rebol
will install its plugin automatically (2 seconds)**, and then the
pictures will be downloaded. Then, you can see the slideshow in
the browser."
[** In the old days - Win XP SP1 - it used to take about 2 seconds
to install this plugin automatically, but now - with SP2 - you
have to give it permission. Nevertheless, it is very quick. What
takes longer is the download of the photos for the demo, but this
has nothing to do with the Rebol plugin itself.]
As far as I can see, this development is relevant to what Rev may
or may not decide to implement in various ways, both technically
and also in terms of keeping up with "what's out there". In short,
just about any program written in Rebol can be run - with no
hassle - in the Windows Internet Explorer. The same facility for
Firefox etc. is still in alpha, but will probably be ready this
year. Everybody speaks about Java, Flash, etc., but nobody seems
to be really aware of what Rebol are up to. Also, as far as I can
see, my little demo is highly relevant to the Web presentation of
media.
Just thought I'd mention it.
Regards,
Bob
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