I totally, totally agree to you, Keith ! Christian from Luxembourg
Le 14 juin 2011 à 09:30, Keith Clarke a écrit : > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
