Engelbart and Kay --was: Back to the Future with Hypercard

[Terry Judd]

> From: Bill Marriott <wjm at wjm.org>
> Reply-To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:24:54 -0500
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Engelbart and Kay --was: Back to the Future with Hypercard
> 
> Hi Judy,
> 
> You know, my "not much demand for it" comment might indeed have been a
> little cavalier. But there is a context missing. Part of my thinking is not
> just the clip art stacks but also the address, date book, charting and other
> stacks where it seems we just won't have people switching from
> Office/Outlook.
> 
> My challenge would be that if there is a need for this kind of content, by
> all means let someone create it. If it's of high enough quality, it could be
> added to the RevSelect library, if not added to Revolution itself.
> 
> I think, for example, Revolution Media in particular would greatly benefit
> from these kinds of enhancement. It would be really interesting to see what
> a talented person could do to "re-imagine" the home stack and library of
> sample stacks that were included with HyperCard, using the new capabilities
> that are part of Revolution.
> 
> - Bill 

I think most users (at any level of expertise) would benefit from a much
expanded image/icon library with icons of different sizes (16x16, 32x32 etc)
to cover all sorts of application and web-centric contexts, rather than
having to purchase these as add-ons.

Terry...