On Thursday, July 29, 2004, at 02:29 PM, Derek Bump wrote:
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.
The web was based on SGML, Standard Generalized Markup Language, if I remember correctly. HTML and XML are both SGML compliant languages. Back in the stone age there was huge concern about wasting bandwidth. The internet was .300 to 1.4 kbt baud rate. The thought of providing pictures was innovative at the time. They even thought up the embed tag and made it prior art so that jerks wouldn't claim it in a patent dispute and get away with it. :-)
The thought of sending executable code was on their minds from the start. Even though the browsers were text based didn't mean the internet pipe had to be. Java, java script, quicktime, shockwave/flash, pdf, and real video and sound all are earlier versions of the executable internet. It comes down to getting a user base as to the success of any implementation worth mentioning.
just my opinion
Mark
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