The problem I had with RIPscript was back in the 90s on my Mac there were no RIPscript viewers available. It was a DOS only technology, while the Web worked on not only the Mac but also my FreeBSD box. The company was also trying to make a living off of the tech while Mosaic and Apache were free.
The other aspect was that it was relatively hard to make a RIPscript image. You needed a vector graphics artist. The web went with simple raster graphics instead which opened up the talent pool considerably. The bandwidth and memory constraints that RIPscript were built around were quickly demolished in the 90s as computer power skyrocketed and relatively fast modems became cheap.
The other aspect was that it was relatively hard to make a RIPscript image. You needed a vector graphics artist. The web went with simple raster graphics instead which opened up the talent pool considerably. The bandwidth and memory constraints that RIPscript were built around were quickly demolished in the 90s as computer power skyrocketed and relatively fast modems became cheap.