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HyperCard almost shipped as a plugin-based Flash competitor (1996 WWDC)
- michaelpinto 14y agoI have to say one of my few regrets about the Steve Jobs era at Apple was that he didn't bring HyperCard back to life. I realize that by the time he came back that the web was already on the rise, but if feels like a missed opportunity — not just for Apple but for the industry.
- rwg 14y agoWhat this means is that every Hypercard stack is a movie and can be played by ANY existing movie player, including (and demoed) MoviePlayer, WordPerfect, Netscape and OpenDoc's movie part. Yeah, that'll be useful for all of those OpenDoc applications that flooded the market in the late '90s... /sarcasm
- pifflesnort 14y agoYou jest, but pluggable HyperCard could have been one of the very few interesting things to come out of OpenDoc. ... Or not. I'm not sure there's anything that could have saved OpenDoc, but QuickTime itself did have broad plugin adoption for a while there.