Luis and friends,
well, this topic has been touched before. Many times. :-)
I'll touch simple things first, the stacks and cards metaphor of
Revolution can be presented in a XML format, but anyway, anything can
be represented in XML format. XML cannot contain binary data, this is
a violation of the spec. You binary data must be encoded with base64
or some other encoding. Not all browsers support SVG also.
My systems as seen in http://www.andregarzia.com are not ready, and
they are targeted at developing web applications with a HTML
interface and web services using REST and XML-RPC.
As for the eternal struggle of those in favor of a web plugin, let us
think one thing first. Web plugins are not magical, people still have
to download and install the plugin, this is not automatical. The
plugin would at least weight as much as the engine, so it is actually
the same thing as downloading a Revolution stack player. Plugins must
be built not only for each browser because each uses a different
interface but also for each platform. I don't think a browser plugin
is a wise idea, there's not enough resources to mantain it. I think
there are only two ways to go:
1) Use thin clients. Many enterprizes are moving away from the
browser. The browser is dumb and you spend a lot more time dealing
with its shortcomings than coding your own solution. I advise people
to read the "beyond the browser" article by Richard Gaskin.
2) In case you really need the browser, use XHTML + Ajax techniques.
This needs not a plugin, you can just code it server side with Rev
and client side with Javascript.
A thing that could be done is to make the engine output java
bytecode, this would allow a stack to be run inside JVM which would
bring it to the browser arena, but again, this would involve
rewritting the whole engine and debugging the new engine and also the
JVM, again, there's no resource for that I think, it's RunRev not
Microsoft.
Andre
On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Luis wrote:
Well, from a while ago the XML nature of the Cards was bandied about.
I would have through these could be parsed and the appropriate 'web
equivalent' controls then written to an HTML file, precluding the
need for a plugin.
A running Rev instance could do this to itself, saving off the
contents of the Card view. Stuff like buttons should be ok as long
as they are 'web safe' images, then there's SVG too.
Interaction would need cgi processing for the data to be sent back
to the running app, or dealing with it within a Rev Web Server:
http://www.andregarzia.com/revwiki/page/RevOnRockets
The only problem is the embedded binary data: Are there docs that
detail its structure?
Cheers,
Luis.
Viktoras Didziulis wrote:
Revolution applets, with possibility to communicate with web page via
javascript or revscript on a web page would be a very handy
solution to
deliver java-like applets without all the complexity and overheads
of java
language. I vote for this. Best Viktoras
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