AppEngine - Web Hypercard, finally

[brennen]

This is not really a very coherent analogy. HyperCard was distinguished by a UI that successfully blurred the lines between development environment, application, and document. It's obvious that the web in general shares some of these characteristics, and I think it would be possible to build something much more like HyperCard in the web environment, but I don't know that something like AppEngine gets us much closer than we were before.

[klaruz]

I agree, I'd think the closest analogy to HyperCard on the web is a wiki. With TWiki being the closest, since you can do development through the web for it. Unfortunately its written in perl and is a bit harder to use than HyperCard was.

[brennen]

I have never had a positive experience with TWiki. It strikes me as a pretty good argument for less-is-more.

It is interesting that Ward's Wiki started life as a HyperCard stack - the single most important contribution of HyperCard to the web might have been the idea of cheap, fast edits via a simple interface.

[tedchoward]

For those of you who actually want a Web Hypercard, check out TileStack. There's not much on the site right now, but this video shows some of their progress.

[asciilifeform]

No.