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On 30.10.2012, at 15:43, D <dannygelder@[redacted].com wrote:
> Open a blank browser window. Mentally choose New Button and New Field, drag the new parts around, double click them to choose icons. Pretend it has persistence and everything you make is autosaved. Now you have Hypercard user level 3. Is it genuinely useful now in the way it was? Or has the world changed and this is not valuable? Perhaps you can find a philosophical midpoint?

IMO that *is* the future of something like HyperCard, (however not a future I would want to develop, I hate web development as it is right now ... however, I might be a user).

That said, this is exactly what tilestack.com was. And TileStack went out of business...

I mean, it had its flaws, like spending too much time trying to simulate HyperCard as it was, and not enough trying to build web pages as we know them today, but I'm not sure whether that was its downfall.

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."

--- In HyperCard-Mailing-List, Uli Kusterer <Witness.of.TeachText@...> wrote:
> That said, this is exactly what tilestack.com was. And TileStack
> went out of business...
>
> I mean, it had its flaws, like spending too much time trying to
> simulate HyperCard as it was, and not enough trying to build web
> pages as we know them today, but I'm not sure whether that was
> its downfall.

There's an interesting comment from Ted Howard on this Quora page from last year:

"We had to close down for a variety of reasons that, unfortunately, I can't discuss publicly. One day I hope to tell the story, but for now, the single sad tile fully represents how I feel."
http://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-Tilestack

Intriguing.

Anyone here ever find out the whole story behind that?

probably some idiotic software patent. 
grrr.



--- On Mon, 11/19/12, richard g <Ambassador@[redacted].com wrote:

From: richard g <Ambassador@[redacted].com
Subject: HyperCard in the web browser (was Re: [HC] Steve Jobs)
To: HyperCard-Mailing-List
Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 3:59 PM