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They're also pretty seriously wrong about HyperCard: > Apple brought color to its HyperCards, but notably, the text links were still black and not blue. Hyper

They're also pretty seriously wrong about HyperCard: > Apple brought color to its HyperCards, but notably, the text links were still black and not blue. HyperCard never natively supported any form of "text links". You could make a button with a text label, or a transparent button hovering over text, but there was no way to attach a behavior to a span of styled text without a lot of custom scripting. (And, for what it's worth, the color XCMD for HyperCard never really caught on. It was a late addition, and never felt entirely like a native part of the application. Even when it was available, most users kept on authoring stacks in black and white.) > However, some UI elements did have blue accents when interacted upon I have no idea what the author is referring to here. Possibly the blue tint in the system UI (like window titlebars), which has nothing to do with HyperCard and didn't apply to its in-app UI?

II2II 5y ago
> I have no idea what the author is referring to here. Possibly the blue tint in the system UI (like window titlebars) I get the impression that the author was trying to answer two questions, the second being: where did the color blue come from? I was also under the impression that the color XCMD was not a part of HyperCard and was created by a third party, but I could be wrong there since it has been over 20 years since I've used HyperCard.
- duskwuff 5y ago
  There were a couple of different color solutions for HyperCard, but the official one (Color Tools) was released with HyperCard 2.3. The window tint in System 7 was a user preference. The purplish blue seen in the screenshot was the default color, but there were about a dozen other options. In any event, it seems a stretch to assume that Apple's choice of this color influenced Mosaic in choosing a different blue color for a different purpose.

II2II 5y ago

> I have no idea what the author is referring to here. Possibly the blue tint in the system UI (like window titlebars) I get the impression that the author was trying to answer two questions, the second being: where did the color blue come from? I was also under the impression that the color XCMD was not a part of HyperCard and was created by a third party, but I could be wrong there since it has been over 20 years since I've used HyperCard.

duskwuff 5y ago
There were a couple of different color solutions for HyperCard, but the official one (Color Tools) was released with HyperCard 2.3. The window tint in System 7 was a user preference. The purplish blue seen in the screenshot was the default color, but there were about a dozen other options. In any event, it seems a stretch to assume that Apple's choice of this color influenced Mosaic in choosing a different blue color for a different purpose.