OK, I do REALIZE that this is stupid, but since it involves MetaCard and the mc Darwin engine and it works, I decided to post one of my MetaCard cgi-driven pages here...
In elementary schools, they do these activities called "Mad Libs." You fill in a sheet of paper with a bunch of labeled lines, such as: Noun: ______________________ Adjective: ________________________ And then they are inserted into a story. The results are usually very silly, and elementary children find them very, very funny. Adults do not usually find them funny, unless inappropriate language is used to fill in the blanks. Anyway, I did an example of this with Metacard's darwin engine running on a stock OS 10.1.1 iMac running Apache. The page is accomplished with two elements - a web page named madlib.htm, and a text file named madlib.mt. The link is: http://mitchellonline.pasco.k12.fl.us/madlib.htm While this is obviously a primitive example, it does show what can be done with the mc Darwin engine. This is really, really exciting stuff. Using these same concepts it should be pretty straightforward to build all kinds of neat server-based services like calendars, planners, etc. I will eventually get around to making a step by step web page for doing this stuff, but I decided to post my silly example in the meantime for folks to see. Thanks to all on this list for being so extremely helpful. There's no other authoring environment like MetaCard, and there's no other mailing list like this one! :) Richard MacLemale Instructional Technology Specialist James W. Mitchell High School _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
