I am working on deploying interactive educational modules via the web using
MC as opposed to Java applets in a browser (Java applets of scientific
simulations I have seen on the web are slow and unreliable, not to mention
other drawbacks of Java vs. MC). After frustrating attempts to get MC
working reliably as a helper application (the various web browsers' fault,
not MC's), I decided that the best strategy was to have a student download a
minimal standalone engine that "bootstraps" from there. My modest initial
experiments with MC web communication are posted at:
http://www-mae.ucsd.edu/research/herz/web_test/
Amazingly simple to implement the basics in MetaCard! A much more
developed (and beautiful!) implementation of this approach is available at
the Himalayan Academy:
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/
Now, an *IDEA*. What about MC Corp and/or RunRev posting an MC/Rev access
"engine" (simpler for an interested person to deal with than the Starter
Kit). This engine would download a directory from an MC/Rev "web portal"
(and sell advertising, and....?). The user could then access all sorts of
stacks supplied by many users and developers that display, in an active way,
the power of MC: demos, useful things like calendars and calculators, chat/
IM stacks, bulletin boards, etc. This might be a more effective marketing
tool than one static screen shot representing each stack.
Rich Herz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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