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Word Perhect
- cardamomo 12y agoThere are some great UI ideas here: * Bored button * Simplified thesaurus * Down-to-earth spell-check system
- ryan-allen 12y agoI'd like to be able to order coffee from within my word processor!
- sejje 12y agoI think you need emacs for that.
- tempodox 12y agoExactly.
- azeirah 12y agoTo be fair, you could use emacs to order coffee. Or any other programmable text editor, Atom, Sublime to name two
- TeMPOraL 12y agoThere's a world of difference between "could" and "can", which is why I use Emacs and do things, instead of using something else and wondering what could have been ;).
- bdcravens 12y agoGood to see that Flash animators can still find an occasional project.
- mcmire 12y agoThanks for this, I needed a laugh today.
- jestar_jokin 12y agoLooks like this was made in 1999. Say what you like about Flash, at least it still works 15 years later.
- cardamomo 12y agoSure, but so does this: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
- blowski 12y agoEven on iPhones (unlike the OP).
- NicoJuicy 12y agoThe OP doesn't work no more because Apple blocked Flash. Otherwhise, it would probably still be supported :)
- randomblast 12y agoBlocked is the wrong word. It implies that Apple had to take some action to stop Flash from working, which would otherwise be the natural way of things.
- tfinniga 12y agoI think it's fair to say that Apple blocked flash. They didn't implement flash in Safari, which is where you're right. But they also disallowed any interpreter on iOS, so even if Adobe wanted to make a flash player on iOS (there was a rumored prototype), it wouldn't be allowed in the app store anyway.
- blowski 12y agoAnd I, for one, am glad that they did. I understand why stuff like this had to be made in Flash in 1999, but in 2014, client-side web development is in a much better place. When Apple blocked Flash on iPhones, we were forced to adopt and improve open standards instead of relying on proprietary software.
- leoh 12y ago/*<![CDATA[*/ /* hide from ie5 mac \*/
- Gracana 12y agothat's good advice for anyone
- raldi 12y agoCan someone summarize it for those of us who don't have Flash?
- fidz 12y agoI only get this. Opening from my mobile http://wordperhect.net/images/perhect-noflash.gif http://wordperhect.net/images/perhect-noflash.gif
- zevyoura 12y agoIt's a parody of a word processor that lets you "handwrite" on scraps of paper and such, with lots of semi-useless buttons like a spell check that tells you to look words up in a dictionary.
- cardamomo 12y agoIt's sort of a re-imagined word processor (implemented in Flash). It lets you select an from an array of things to write on (masking tape, back of a phone bill, a lighter, etc.) and what size and level of messiness you want to write with. Some standard word processing functions are implemented in surprising ways. "Deleting" just scribbles out a word. "Cut" suggests that you print the document first and then cut it up. Other buttons in the editor window are more playful in nature. A "bored" button suggests that you go outside and play, for example.
- brianjesse 12y agoeven the name of this is funny, well done
- siddboots 12y agoI sat reading the tips for a good fifteen minutes. Did you know... Clouds are passing by all the time. Did you know... You can go outside right now if you like. Did you know... Every single grass of the loam is casting shadows individually when it is sunny.
- miahi 12y agoHelp topics are also great. Bold No hair. or. daring. or type of writing. There's none of it in word perhect.
- m_mueller 12y agoIt's nice how they've used one of the creator's Jenglish (or simulation thereof) for comedic effect, see the help files for example.
- tempodox 12y agoWonderful. We should make all of Windoze like that.
- ejr 12y agoTry opening existing files. It's a treasure trove!
- danielweber 12y agoI don't know why, but "help for word perhect help" felt very inspired.
- skrowl 12y agoFlash? Really? In 2014? ...Or is the OP just missing (1997) or whatever in the title?
- syncsynchalt 12y ago1999.
- lowlevel 12y agoI can only seem to scribble out one character and not entire words. Useless.
- colanderman 12y agoPsh. This guy implemented an entire operating system in Flash: http://www.deanliou.com/winrg/ http://www.deanliou.com/winrg/
- bkurtz13 12y agoAm I the only one here who didn't really find this amusing or charming, but tedious and pointless? I guess that's art for you...