I am trying to determine whether and how I can put a metacard stack on my website and have my readers access it.
In hypercard it is possible to open a web page using the "open url" command. I am looking through the metacard documentation and finding it sparse, though I am sure it must be in there somewhere (nearly everything else is!) I have a rather big website (http://lexnet.bravepages.com) which I might convert to metacard to showcase both metacard and my writing. This is because the text processing of xTalk is so vastly superior to anything that could be done in javaScript (to say nothing of browser and platform incompatabilities). But before I go down that path I want to make sure and determine how to do the following: *have a stack link to a web page *have a web page link to a stack such that the stack will not just be saved to the local machine but actually be opened by metacard if metacard is on the local machine. I have been trying to get netscape to use helper applications to open the stack. The stack will download but I have not yet gotten it to both download and open which is my objective. I have figured out how to import files from the web. But for now I am a bit stumped on opening a browsers from metacard and on reading a metacard stack from a browser. I may be able to eventually convince other academics that metacard is a superior choice to HTML or even PDF. I think it is - with metacard you can take a bibliography and rearrange it dynamically by topic, subject or author, as well as search terms. Maybe that is possible under DHTML but again there are so many cross browser and even cross platform problems that I think the better choice is metacard. ===== My Web sites: http://www.geocities.com/engleerica/ (law) http://www.geocities.com/newtontechspecs (Newton!) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
