Re: hypercard faq?

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: In article <5eksfh$q74@uni.library.ucla.edu>,  <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:
: >On the other hand, putting the A2 FAQ into a hypercard or
: >hyperstudio stack: now that would make it easy to access.  Maybe
: >some hypercard or hyperstudio gurus would like to give it a shot.

:    "Easy to access"??? What the heck are you smoking today? For
: starters, you'd instantly shaft every non-GS Apple II owner, everyone
: who doesn't have hypercard already (and since the FAQ says where to
: download it, instant catch-22), people trying to read the FAQ online
: from unix or IBM PCs, and the like.  In other words, you probably just
: made it inaccessible to (in my not-so-humble opinion) probably at
: least 90% of the people that'd want to read it.

Settle down, Nathan!

I don't think anyone is advocating an abandonment of the current format! 
It's just that the FAQs are a useful reference tool.  If you need
something from the FAQ and do not happen to be on-line, you could launch
HyperCard and navigate to the answer to your question right from the home
card.  If you have downloaded a HyperCard version.  The point is, for
people who have HCGS (or who have Macintoshes) and who have downloaded the
FAQ, having the FAQ in HyperCard format might be a little more
approachable than trying to wade through either the Text or HTML version. 
Remember, there is a distinct lack of HTML browsers (even for local
documents) on the ][...until someone adapts Lynx, HyperCard and
HyperStudio are the best hypertext browsers we have for the ][.

Of course, the ideal way to handle it would be for someone to compose an
HTML-->HyperTalk converter so that the end user could download the HTML
version of the FAQ(s) once in a while and update the corresponding
HyperCard stacks.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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