> So my opinion is that the web should have been based on > HyperCard-like (Rev-like) platform, NOT HTML, in the very first place.
Isn't this pretty much what AOL and CompuServe were like? I never got a chance to use the old versions, but I do remember the screenshots and they always reminded me of Stacks. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software ____________________________________________ Compress Images Easily with JPEGCompress http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Takaaki Furukawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:02 PM Subject: Re: Rev Online > Hi Hershel, > > >> I'm excited to see Rev Online in 2.5B1. (And I liked "EuroRevCon" > >> stack by > >> Malte) This is the way WWW should have been in the first place... > >> HTML dragged us back to text-based stone-age computing, but now we're > >> back > >> in the future, although security issues could potentially exist in > >> sharing stacks. > >> I hope more ways to "link" between distributed stacks and objects > >> will be provided. > > What do mean ? "this is the way WWW should have been ? > > Thanks > > The current world wide web is text document-based, which is > way old-fashioned and inflexible. HyperCard was already there > since 1987, and it was far more easy-to-author than HTML. > And systems like Rev Online lets people share working ideas > as working stacks, which is a more intelligent way of > communication than just sharing text and images. > > So my opinion is that the web should have been based on > HyperCard-like (Rev-like) platform, NOT HTML, in the very first place. > That > was *not impossible* back in 1993 (when CD-ROM and multimedia age > was already there, and there were tons of good titles) , but because > WWW was > standardized by those unix-heads who stick to outdated text-based > architecture, and worse, it became popular, we had to live in the > world that's one generation older than HyperCard... which is HTML. > Alan Kay hated HTML too. > > Takaaki > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >
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