On 1/18/12, Fernando Olivero <[email protected]> wrote: > Dennis, your screenshots are awesome, hope remains for a direct > manipulation framework such as Morphic to beet lesser and boring > standard UI WIDGETS frameworks. > > And by the way, Morphic isnt ours..it comes from a groundbreaking > object-focused environment called SELF.
> Fernando Thank you for the reminder and the screen shot of a self screen. A recent implementation of Morphic using only HTML 5 canvas and JavaScript by Jens Mönig is here http://chirp.scratchr.org/dl/experimental/JsMorphic/morphic.html and the documentation is here http://chirp.scratchr.org/dl/experimental/JsMorphic/morphic.txt (21 - Feb - 2012) The code (MIT license) is very readable http://chirp.scratchr.org/dl/experimental/JsMorphic/morphic.js Morphic was developed in connection with the programming language 'Self'. The Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language) says that self is an _extreme_ dialect of Smalltalk. "Self was designed mostly by David Ungar and Randall Smith in 1986 while working at Xerox PARC. Their objective was to push forward the state of the art in object-oriented programming language research, once Smalltalk-80 was released by the labs and began to be taken seriously by the industry." --Hannes
