What is lacking in Rev Server that prevents the application of html5 ? That doesn't make sense.
On 14 June 2011 00:30, Keith Clarke <keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk>wrote: > One might argue that it is actually RunRev that is missing something > strategic here - the potential and impact of HTML5. > > When I invested in Revolution a year ago, things were looking very > promising for its potential for true cross-platform application development. > RunRev had just announced the revServer prerelease, there was talk of a new > revWeb player and Apple had just shown it's true imperial colours by > restricting cross-platform compilers - for RunRev, a painful lesson on > aligning one's business strategy with a larger partner's proprietary > technology strategy. > > Android was still a future and major cloud developers started ramping-up > their investment in HTML5/CSS3 to mitigate the coming plethora of mobile > platform variants. At that time, RunRev could have adopted a brave, > cross-platform, 'thinner-client' strategy by pushing HTML5 capabilities in > the revWeb player and revServer, but Apple changed just enough to allow > RunRev to stay in its comfort zone. > > A year later and, after many developer-years effort burned by RunRev, what > has been delivered for those investing in the product(?) - two new OS ports > - but what of the bigger picture? LiveCode remains fundamentally a > thick-client on 'some-OS' development environment - not cross-platform' in a > 2011 sense of the word. Over the last year, Linux has been largely ignored, > the revWeb player has been completely ignored and those investing in the > revServer prerelease programme have the right to be quite miffed; having > received no ROI. > > Meanwhile, HTML5 is getting ever-closer and it looks very much like RunRev > and LiveCode won't be players in that world. I hope that it doesn't prove > for me, a painful lesson on aligning one's business strategy with a larger > partner's proprietary technology strategy. > Best, > Keith.. > > On 13 Jun 2011, at 23:28, Paul Foraker wrote: > > > > http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/13-essential-programming-tools-the-mobile-web-246 > > > > *When it comes to programming for mobile devices, choice quickly becomes > > dilemma. Do you target the lucrative iPhone market at the expense of > > Android's rising tide? Do you go native or write code to the mobile Web? > And > > while a single stack of code that performs optimally on an increasingly > wide > > array of platforms, form factors, and devices would be the dream, the > > reality is a fragmented trial in which rudimentary tasks can often be a > > challenge. > > > > *I'm thinking maybe the author missed something. > > > > -- Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ 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
