As alluring as a solution like this might be in theory, javascript is
very resistant to attempts to high-level language it.
There are too many traps and weirdnesses and browser bugs and
inconsistencies to make this an easy job- presenting an app in a
browser requires getting right into the javascript code and getting
your hands dirty if you want it to to work and be fast enough.
There are several javascript frameworks that help speed up
development- but anyone expert enough in javascript to be able to use
the frameworks, they often choose to just code by hand from scratch.
Kind of like Dreamweaver allowed noobs to create bloated, slow-
loading web pages full of "<font></font><font></font><font></
font><font></font>"-type crap, but real developers still just type HTML.
Javascript syntax itself is not that hard to learn for an xTalk
programmer, but what you need to know is all the workarounds for IE,
and that's a huge body of knowledge. =)
On Jan 17, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
So, while visiting Macworld San Francisco this week, I chanced upon
a small
booth that had the word "HyperCard" in the description. I was
prepared to
dismiss whatever goofball developments the guys there were showing,
but
after talking to them for a while, I think they have an interesting
take on
x-talk (for them it's HyperTalk). Called "TileStack", their
intention is to
create a HyperCard-type development environment, but starting from
the Web
side using Javascript libraries and server-based logic, instead of
starting
from the desktop side. All coding will use the HyperTalk (TileTalk?)
language and if I recall correctly, the initial IDE will be a Web-
based
front end.
The interesting possibility about this is that, if it is ever
released,
stacks will be immediately sharable by a much larger audience than
x-talk
tools which require players/standalones (I believe only Javascript
is needed
to run a stack, thus the potential for delivery could be equal to
or maybe
even greater than Flash, which requires a player). Obviously,
there are a
lot of questions to be answered, and it wasn't clear to me how far
along
they are, but they have a simple puzzle demo on their site and they
are
collecting email addresses of interested parties for early access.
http://tilestack.com/
FWIW.
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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