Yep. Already working on it. We did tests like this back in
October of last year, it ran well enough until we got side
tracked. Our current focus is mctools.org which is nearing
completion and will be going into beta testing with the
assistance of those on this list. -- Look for a call for
suggestions next week.
You may have missed the post about http://www.mctools.org/ , if
you go now and sign up you will have access to our server
running mchttpd 24/7. You will be given 2mb of disk space (more
if required) to do all your testing for free. Commercial use of
our service is coming shortly after the launch of mctools,
including the availability of exactly such a service as you
described.
(Now I truly do believe that the phone was developed in two
parts of the world at the exact same time by two independent
persons.)
On Wednesday, June 6, 2001, at 04:42 PM, Richard Herz wrote:
> 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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