[Announcement] It's Arrived! Edit Actinic from your browser, via plugin

[leehack]

rest assured, the price will be cheaper than multiuser, by a very long way.

It sounds like it is about 4 years ahead of that already anyway.
Look forward young Jedi, not back.

[gabrielcrowe]

for those that are taking the time to help me test this, please be aware that at this time, IE6 is not supported as a viewing client in Actinet.

Internet Explorer 6's features are too broken to ensure that everything renders and works correctly.

IE7 and Firefox 2 are perfect, Firefox is the browser of choice, its faster, a lot faster.

so, if your bug reports are IE6 errors, please, lol, i know

[Orchid]

Wow

WOW - brilliant - one of my clients with LOVE this and I mean LOVE they are pushing Multiuser to it's limits and hate the fact that only one user can be an administrator.

by the way did I say WOW

[gabrielcrowe]

One question, if you can do it, how come Actinic's Hungarians can't, or won't?? or just don't bloody care?

they probably can. but to be honest, a web interface is a little too out of the box for a focused mindset to deal with.

i dont think those people crying out for Google Checkout and other fixes would be all too pleased if something like this took up actinic's development time

to give the desktop metaphor life in the browser is no easy task. trust me, lol, its taken a loooong time to develop. I did speak before about a mobile phone compatible interface, and i'm not ruling that out as some sort of cheap addin plugin, but i realised that for rich desktop functionality, in a web interface, i needed a lot of ajax and script. If anyone has debugged a ground up ajax app, then you'll know how úber complex it is.

though i would like a nice plugin api from Actinic Towers!

[gabrielcrowe]

gosh, writing software has made me all grown up. I even got rid of the daft signature.

[Jan]

One question, if you can do it, how come Actinic's Hungarians can't, or won't?? or just don't bloody care?

As a plugin developer (and an Actinic developer) I can tell you that it is a lot easier to write a plugin for Actinic with limited functionality (I haven't looked at Gabe's plugin yet so that comment isn't aimed at it) than it is to maintain and develop Actinic. The development team work very hard and do care very much about this product and I'm quite sure that seeing ridiculous comments like yours can be very disheartening.

Regards,

[RuralWeb]

One question, if you can do it, how come Actinic's Hungarians can't, or won't?? or just don't bloody care

I dont recall anyone really asking for it or starting a wish list for it. As jan says they have other fish to fry

[gabrielcrowe]

lol, and i'm almost glad, since if they did, i'd not have even considered writing this.

[Mark H]

I think that's right - we will probably rely more on third party plugins to provide useful interesting stuff which reacts quickly to market conditions. The Actinic mega oil tanker clearly can't change direction very quickly and has a number of leaks which are taking time to patch.

[pnagames]

it is better the way it is having third parties (Like Gabe and Jan) writing plug-ins

Actinic still get serrious bugs in their system and they deal only with the program itself.

for them to write plug-ins they will either have to divert resources which i dont think anyone would want that or employ more people...

[gabrielcrowe]

please, if you can help it kids, lets keep all the talk on attacking actinic, out of the thread.

[gabrielcrowe]

if you're testing at the moment (thanks!)

here is a support ticket url:
http://www.interact-studio.co.uk/support

its nothing clever, or pretty, but its something quick to set up that seems to do the job

[Buzby]

If you added the feature so that more than 1 user could add products at the same time I would be really, really interested.

Kind regards

Jason

[gabrielcrowe]

the core is very extensible, and i have no doubt that Actinet will be able to do that very shortly. Just at this early stage, its limited to editing items only. No items can be added.

[Tickle]

Hi Gabriel,

this sounds like a brilliant add-on, are you still taking beta testers for this? I emailed you via your support email address.

Regards

John