[REBOL] Re: Flash
From: petr:krenzelok:seznam:cz at: 3-Dec-2008 14:11
Nick Antonaccio napsal(a):
> Hi Graham,
>
> It's great to hear that the plugin is being updated!
I am not sure you translated it correctly. Maybe above sentence means,
that if we update plug-in, it is the way to go, and not to port REBOL to
Flash. Some language gurus would have to comment here, but I am not
sure, we can easily port REBOL to Flash, JAVA, or other VM, without
significant loss. Remember - in order to get View working, you need
parser, you need REBOL itself, so you would have to port whole REBOL to
particular VM.
Some guys were thinking the other way - making VID to html (css, js,
ajax), VID to Flash translator. But then it would fit only for limited
subset of language. I don't expect every low level View code to work.
But once again - this one is for gurus.
But - there is also the third way - once R3 is released, it is 80% being
open sourced. All host codes are going to be released. So I expect to R3
to span new platforms much more easily than it was with R2 (dependant on
RT only). Of course having R3 itself running on particular platform
still does not mean we will have it running in browser. But
browser-plug-in should be another strategic component imo.
-pekr-
