Should I forget HC? Honestly?

[Richmond]

Yes, I have "done", and in so doing I asked myself some pretty warped 
questions,
of which the signal one was, "What on earth am I doing this for when the 
LiveCode
IDE can be simplified sufficiently to exclude all developments post 
version 7 anyway?"

Richmond.

On 26.01.19 17:01, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote:
> I’ll join this chorus as well and add that LC has become what I had hoped Hypercard would become back in the day. LC is Hypercard on steroids! If your goal is to simplify LC, then do as I believe Richmond has already done, and build a simplified (limited) tool palette in LiveCode and call it RetroLC=HC.
>
>
> Roger
>
>> On Jan 26, 2019, at 7:29 AM, hh via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> (1) https://vipercard.net
>>
>> (2) https://github.com/kreativekorp/openxion
>>
>> (3) https://github.com/uliwitness/stacksmith/
>>
>> See also the xtalk interviews here:
>> http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/articles.htm
>>
>> (4) Why not make a rather complete LC HTML5 standalone?
>> It could have an optional "retro-look" (HyperCard).
>>
>> This is then written in LC Script and could use also the
>> full javaScript of the modern browsers.
>> Is already now several steps above (1).
>>
>> ++ Would require to add improved keyboard support to LC's
>> HTML5 engine.
>>
>> ++ Could start from (edit and set scripts):
>> https://hyperhh.de/html5/hhTestInStandalone-9.0.2hhX.html
>>
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