>But that position *may* have changed given the
>Opencard initiative. Though I'm not sure if a specification only in use
>by two vendors (or three if we're lucky) is necessarily worth the effort
>of writing it.
Kevin,
if we want to broaden knowledge ans distribution of xTalk, we should have
a formal language spec. Chris Watson once had the idea of adding xTalk to
Mozilla. If we ever wanted to propose xTalk as an internet standard to the
W3C we need a spec.
>Unfortunately, we don't currently have the time for a project like this.
>Too busy writing software ;-) Its a sizeable task, and requires someone
>with a fair bit of available time. Perhaps someone from the Opencard
>group would like to do it?
I once started with an HC stack, where I added some of HyperCard's and
SuperCard's syntax. It even had an HTML export feature. I'm sure it'll get
updated as features are rolled into OpenCard. Maybe I can add some features
to it and create SC and MC versions. Then we could use them to steal stuff
from existing reference stacks if the companies agree.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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