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An Introduction to Morphic: The Squeak User Interface Framework (2000) [pdf]

• yvdriess 11y ago
  Morphic is a bit the 'Lisp' of UI frameworks, learning it is valuable on its own for the insights it brings. In comparison, most UI frameworks (barring McClim) are virtually identical (gridbag, Model-View-Something). related: As the Javascript object system is close enough to Self, of course someone thought of making a morphic for the browser: http://lively-web.org/welcome.html http://lively-web.org/welcome.html
  • mpweiher 11y ago
    Where "someone" = "Dan Ingalls" (mostly). So not entirely unrelated ;-)
  • pjmlp 11y ago
    Specially since MVC and other UI paradigms were born at Xerox PARC. http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html (the famous green, blue and red books) http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/p004.htm http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...
• zeveb 11y ago
  I always thought that Morphic was extremely interesting, but I never could wrap my head around it. Clearly it was used to do some cool things in Squeak, and obviously the problem is that I was either insufficiently intelligent or experienced, or too set in my ways—but it seemed very difficult to understand.