[REBOL] Re: alambik.com
From: cyphre:seznam:cz at: 18-Jul-2002 15:37
Hi Bolek
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From: "Boleslav Brezovsky" <[rebolek--seznam--cz]>
To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 2:15 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: alambik.com
Same for me. I use Mozilla too and I was send from their homepage to
some other "homepage" because my "browser may be incompatible and sorry
for any inconvenience" blah blah. So I lost interest. It may be cool as
hell but it isn't because it's only Explorer specific.
The Alambik viewer could be launched also outside the brovser, just ensure
you have asociated .tvd suffix with the alambik.exe...
>On the other hand: the REBOL demos loaded in less than 10 seconds from
>my View console. Just another example of how cool REBOL is. Even if I
>hadn't had it on my system, i could've downloaded the whole REBOL
>software package and viewed Cyphre's links in the same amount of time
it
>took me to not find the alambik plugin.
>Cross-platform is the only way to go.
>:)
Yes, that's true. And that's the reason why I don't think that
REBOL/View should have DirectX support as some people suggested. Maybe
REBOL isn't fastest right now but there are other ways than using some
tricky proprietary API existing just for one platform.
I think each port of Rebol/View should get maximum from the possibilities of
the platform where is runnig. So why should REBOL use slow and ugly software
rendering on systems with great graphics power? I think this has nothing
with multi-platformity. We are talking about visualising techniques not
about language itself. I'll bet every programmer will be glad to see the
same code is runnign way smooth on accelerated machine than on some
old-timer from 90's...
Regards,
Cyphre
