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From: cs162fed@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU (Grobbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HyperCard interface (was Re: MacUser)
Message-ID: <812@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 17:11:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 23 17:11:19 1987
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In article <7469@eddie.MIT.EDU> zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks) writes:
>The issue of cohesiveness is simply a red herring. As long as
>Hypercard stacks are easy and obvious in their user interface, they
>have fulfilled the user interface contract.

Perhaps.  But Mac applications which don't use the toolbox are
laughed off the market.  What is there to ensure that stacks
have reasonable interfaces?

>Things will have to change simply because the Macintosh is too bound to
>today's technology to last for more than 5-6 more years before a
>compellingly superior user interface is possible at a reasonable
>price. 

I hope so.  I do think that HyperCard has abandoned the Mac interface
without offering a good alternative.

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