Screen vs Page vs Card

[Judy Perry]

I disagree, FWIW.  Conceptually, the two sets are *very different*.

Books are necessarily LINEAR.  How do you explain a non-linear book?
(Okay, you can present the case of an encyclopedia or dictionary, but
they're the *exception*, not the norm).

You all are thinking in terms of people who already know something about
programming.

I'm thinking about those who don't.

And they're the prime territory of unconverted masses (because people who
want to discuss the semantics of card versus panel versus page ALREADY
understand the exception case of how they can be the same).

Besides -- has ToolBook really had the same impact that Hypercard has?
I'm kinda doubting it... and this isn't just prejudice -- it's after a
literature review search in ACM periodicals. You'll find Hypercard coming
up in searches for 'novice programmer' but I haven't found one yet that
references ToolBook (which I loathed, btw...).

Judy

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> FWIW, that's exactly the metaphor ToolBook uses, in which what we call a
> "stack" is a "book", and what we call a "card" is a "page".
>
> If there would be no impact on performance or other issues I would vote
> for those synonyms being accepted by the engine.  It would help ToolBook
> users migrating to a less costly, less complicated-to-install system,
> and would allow further distancing from the whole "card" metaphor that
> Apple's bizarre actions with HyperCard have effectively ghetto-ized.