RR as a browser plugin?

[Christopher Mitchell]

And universities... IT departments in universities can be just as 
strange.  My professor, a mac user for a particular program 
(Accordance), instead of being permitted to bring in his own computer 
at his own expense was given a very very very bottom of the barrel PC 
gray-box and some Mac emulation software.

Now which do you think is going to be more of a challenge to support?

But yes, they image everything as well and if education is a market for 
RunRev on the backend, this would work well enough there too.

Maybe we should just get the engine preloaded, or perhaps I don't see 
why that is any more dangerous than any other engine being installed 
(.NET, java, etc... they're (in some sense) all very similar))

I did see some information about homestacks being infiltrated by a 
HyperCard virus, but that seems unlikely to be anymore dangerous than, 
for example, MS Office or Windows in general.

Yours,
Chris
On Feb 12, 2004, at 1:37 AM, Alex Rice wrote:

>
> On Feb 12, 2004, at 12:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Because unless it's bundled it will still need to be downloaded, and 
>> if one
>> needs to download and install something it could just as well provide
>> multiple window, menus, and other options not possible in a browser.
>>
>> Look at the number of plugins in '98, and how few are left today.  
>> Bundling
>> is the advantage of plugins.  Without bundling, an engine's an 
>> engine....
>
> It's not such a black and white issue.
>
> You are talking about average-joe-consumer out there with Windows 98, 
> and generalizing that to say there is no advantage to browser plugins, 
> period. I disagree.
>
> Look at IT departments that ghost their systems for rollouts. No 
> downloading of plugins required. In fact downloading may not be 
> allowed. In fact- public www access may not even be allowed! 
> Corporations are strange places.
>
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