[Pythoncard-users] Re: Dave Winer on HyperCard + Web + MORE

You got it right on all counts.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Altis" <al...@se...>
To: "pythoncard-Users" <pyt...@li...>
Cc: "Dave Winer" <da...@us...>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:35 PM
Subject: Dave Winer on HyperCard + Web + MORE


> Dave Winer gave PythonCard a mention today:
>
>
http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2001/11/21#canOpenSourceCompete
>
> Most of the piece is about open source and not really about PythonCard or
> me; I think I'm mostly mentioned because of a point he wants to make about
> open source. The opinions are Dave's, not mine, so don't flame me. ;-)
>
> Anyway, I talked to Dave yesterday because I wanted to find out what
exactly
> he meant when he was talking about HyperCard + the Web + MORE which you
can
> read about at:
>
> http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2001/11/20#hypercardAndTheWeb
>
> and
>
> http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2001/11/19#hypercardMore
>
> I'm still not entirely sure everything he is putting into Radio Userland
or
> more importantly how it relates to the PythonCard goals, but he is using
> outlines for just about everything: source code (the Frontier debugger is
> outline-aware), preferences, template management, etc. and the real work
is
> done via XML-RPC talking to a server.
>
> Dave's solution space is web apps. If you think of a web application as a
> set of slides with the information displayed on templates, then an
> application becomes a set of user interface frames, much like the wizard
> dialogs a lot of apps use. Many HyperCard stacks could be viewed as slide
> shows with the ability to add, edit, and delete slides or search the
stack.
> This notion could be applied to a desktop app that also works in a
browser.
> Despite my distaste for the 3270 terminal interface (fill in form, press
> Enter, display result) applied to modern GUI apps, Dave might be onto
> something, so I'm going to at least pay attention.
>
> In case I completely missed the point of what Dave was trying to get
across
> yesterday and to give him a chance to correct me or follow-up I've cc'ed
him
> on this message
>
> ka
>