Jaque, Thanks for the explanation and the links (bookmarked for further study).
However, isn't this 'thick client' web application architecture, (with the proprietary revlet download and requisite local machine/browser support by a rev plug-in) only one revServer scenario? According to the RunRev product page, it is still being positioned as an enabler of HTML+CSS+irev capabilities within a standard browser to create, platform-independent cloud-based applications. Or am I missing the point completely? On 17 Feb 2011, at 16:17, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/17/11 3:06 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: >> >> I bought the server deployment in the expectation that I could take >> the same set of stacks I would use for a desktop app development and >> (perhaps with a few modifications) simply deploy to revServer to >> create a web application, with the UI elements 'automagically' >> becoming available to a browser. > > As Andre mentioned, it was never meant for that. It's strictly a server-side > language, but it works very well for its intended use. My personal site is > built completely with it: <http://jacque.on-rev.com/> > > The automatic embedding of stacks into a web page is what revlets are for. So > there are two parts to the LiveCode web experience -- the server language > (on-rev, irev) and the client plugin (revlets.) > > The nice part is that you can combine the two on the same web page. That's > what I've done here: <http://jacque.on-rev.com/codebits/dualrevlets.irev> On > that page, all the page layout is managed by "includes" in my irev scripts, > and some things are dynamically calculated by the irev scripts when the page > loads (the copyright notice, for example, updates the year automatically.) > But the two revlets on the page are run by the client-side plugin. You get > the best of both worlds this way. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
