on 2/13/01 6:14 PM, G Wood at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Since I wrote "Is this a joke?", just wanted to clarify that I meant it
> sarcastically. I still use HyperCard EVERYDAY. I think it is wonderful,
> and presaged the "web" before anyone even thought much about it.
personally, I often felt that HyperCard gave the original designers of the
web the idea behind the web - "like Hypercard, except spread out..."
> I thought it was a funny question, given Apple's often cruel disregard for
> some projects (HyperCard is so especially close to my heart that I tend to
> anthropomorphize it...)
Yeah, Apple has a great history to invent great technology, and when it's
really popular to abandon it - which is part of Apple's (old) cause for
their fall (even though that fall took 10 years to happen).
> (I think FileMaker should buy it and turn it into a development component of
> FileMaker Pro ... And even use it as a database viewer.)
Boy, you really must hate HyperCard to wish that upon it.. Why do you want
to hoist the morons from FM onto something good like HC?
> And, although my HyperCard Plug-in for browsers never materialized, I think
> THAT would go a long way in saving HC.
Dude, now there's an incredible idea - in fact, given HC's background, it
would be sooo easy these days to create just such a plug-in, or runtime
architecture that would allow HC to live on any platform.
Maybe someone should make it an opensource project.
Harry
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