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Jim Carwardine JimCarwardine at OwnYourFuture-net.com
Thu Jul 29 20:17:56 EDT 2004


Wasn't Netscape originally written in HyperCard also?  Jim

on 7/29/04 6:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> 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.
> 
> And vice versa:  Since part of the motivation for making RevNet was to
> show how trivial it can be to write a custom variant of AOL, I borrowed
> the window dimenensions and a few layout elements directly from them. :)

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