Rev Online

[Hershel Fisch]

On Thursday, July 29, 2004, at 03:02 PM, Takaaki Furukawa wrote:

> 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.
Got this.
> 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.
Sorry, didn't get this . So your saying not to use a browser, instead, 
use a stack ? How would that work ? If you could elaborate a bit I'd 
appreciate ..
Thanks , Hershel

>
>  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 standardized by those unix-heads who stick to outdated text-based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
>
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