Hi Mark, you might not have said that such decisions are wrong, but with finite resources, decisions must be made. Some decisions will turn out to be the wrong decisions. About 3 years ago RealBasic and Livecode looked like they were going in the same direction; they've now branched off in different directions. It may prove disastrous for either or both companies. If it does, then they will have made a mistake in evaluating where things are going and what technology/market will be best for their clients. We won't know that until some point in the future. But Runrev sure realised that mobile applications were far more important than I did.
When Apple was first promoting applications for mobile devices, they promoted web apps as the right route. Either that was a delaying tactic, or they decided they'd made the wrong prediction. Because native apps became the most common form of app (despite that requiring re-tooling by many developers). As I haven't paid much attention to javascript since the whole Ajaxy thing was coined, I had a look at what RealStudio have to say about HTML5. http://www.realsoftwareblog.com/2011/09/rough-edges-of-html5.html http://www.infoworld.com/print/169665 I've seen companies in the arena of IDE-that-compiles-web-app struggle to survive (Morfik comes to mind). Considering what they were offering a few years ago, it doesn't seem to have been the runaway success that I expected it to be. Another instance where my expectations of the market seemed to be at variance with reality. I can understand you'd like Livecode to output a web app in addition to the other kinds of deployment target. So would I. With limited options for the encryption of local data, I view mobile phone apps as being thin-client apps. I've no idea what is required to make governments recognise the need for the encryption of data on devices. But that is one of the things that those 2 links from my visit to the RealStudio website highlight as a problem with HTML5 apps. It seems we take data security far less seriously now than 20 years ago. I've read reports of government and corporate employees being mandated NOT to take their mobile phones to foreign countries, because of the risks of the contents/devices being compromised. That's a 19th century solution to a 21st century problem. Some of the other risks (such as hacking of a local webapp) do not seem to me to be such a serious problem. Richard Gaskin argued persuasively IMO against a runrev browser plug-in. I really don't care if the plug-in dies. I don't see it offers any benefit other than users who live in a browser not having to start another application in order to do something. That seems to be a Bernard On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Bernard, > > Well, what makes it wrong? The IT world changed quickly. Today HTML5, > tomorrow ABCD6. That doesn't mean that everyone who chose HTML5 today is > wrong tomorrow. > > I'm not sure where I'm saying RealStudio made a bad choice? Nor am I saying > that RunRev is going the wrong path, but it has to hurry making the next step. > > Objective-C is just the next stage in the evolution of C-languages. If you > started learning C recently, then you probably started with C# or Objective-C > and those will still be useful when the next C-generation appears. Your time > hasn't been wasted on that. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille _______________________________________________ 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
