So, while visiting Macworld San Francisco this week, I chanced upon a small booth that had the word "HyperCard" in the description. I was prepared to dismiss whatever goofball developments the guys there were showing, but after talking to them for a while, I think they have an interesting take on x-talk (for them it's HyperTalk). Called "TileStack", their intention is to create a HyperCard-type development environment, but starting from the Web side using Javascript libraries and server-based logic, instead of starting from the desktop side. All coding will use the HyperTalk (TileTalk?) language and if I recall correctly, the initial IDE will be a Web-based front end.
The interesting possibility about this is that, if it is ever released, stacks will be immediately sharable by a much larger audience than x-talk tools which require players/standalones (I believe only Javascript is needed to run a stack, thus the potential for delivery could be equal to or maybe even greater than Flash, which requires a player). Obviously, there are a lot of questions to be answered, and it wasn't clear to me how far along they are, but they have a simple puzzle demo on their site and they are collecting email addresses of interested parties for early access. http://tilestack.com/ FWIW. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
