Rich Web Application Example?

[Kevin]

In days past using Revolution 2.x there was a example application that utilized stacks retrieved via a 'URL' (go to stack URL "http://www.name.org/dashboard/Dashboard.rev). The application (stand alone) itself was simple and if memory serves retrieved the main program via the 'URL' syntax. This at the time was referred to in the vein of 'Rich Web Application Development'. Unfortunately, I lost my copy of this stack and the tutorial therein. It also unfortunate that I am unable to remember the author the name or anything really helpful about the stack itself.

Thanks,
Kevin

[FourthWorld]

Downloading stacks is useful and fun, and there are many ways to do it for many uses.

Check out this article on The Reactor Lab as one inspiring example:
http://www.revjournal.com/features/reactorlab.html

Another is RevNet - in Rev see Development->Plugins->Go RevNet

You're welcome to use any RevNet scripts in your own stuff if they're helpful.

[Kevin]

This is the exactly it!

THANKS!!!!!

[FourthWorld]

Happy to help. As you go along you'll no doubt have questions about implementation specifics, and I would encourage you to post them here. I think sharing stacks within standalones is a very powerful yet underappreciated way of working that's useful for a great many things. Hopefully this discussion you've started will raise awareness of the possibilities, and help inspire others to explore new nifty ways to use this capability.

I've been intrigued by REBOL for many years, and aside from its remarkable flexibility for defining sub-languages within it one of the cool things about it its inherently distributed way of working, very much like shared stack files.

I think all the work done to date on this sort of thing has barely scratched the surface. So many possibilities to discover, a true best-of-both-worlds where you have all the power and flexibility of a desktop app and all of the connectedness of the Internet, all tied together with the simplicity of RevTalk.

[FourthWorld]

PS: I was going to send you a PM, but I discovered that PMs have been disabled here.

Please drop me an email at ambassador@fourthworld.com when you have a chance. Thanks.