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- Wednesday, January 14, 2015
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- On making a web page remind me of a quality I never fully appreciated in
- HyperCard.
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- So I generally am totally ok with scrolling on web pages. I think in
- fact it's a major advantage of the form.
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- Then again, I just got to indulging a few minutes of thinking about
- HyperCard, and I think that this time rather than read the same old
- articles about its ultimate doom over and over again, maybe I should do
- something by way of recreating part of it that was different from the
- web in general.
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- The web has plenty of stupid carousels and stuff, but despite their example I'm
- curious whether HyperCard's stack model could still hold up as an idea. I was
- never sure whether it was the important thing or not. It was so obviously and
- almost clumsily a _metaphor_. (A skeuomorphism which I have never actually
- seen anyone bag on when they are playing that game, perhaps because Designer
- Ideologues know there's not much percentage in talking shit about HyperCard.)
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- Here is some JavaScript to start:
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- $('article').each(function (i, a) {
- $(a).hide();
- });
- $('article').first().show();
-
- I'll spare you the usual slow-composition narrative of where I go from here,
- and jump straight to my eventual [first-pass solution](https://github.com/brennen/tildebrennen/commit/560826a9884dae47998843dcf4917266b3344fec).
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- (Ok, actually I just repurposed a terrible thing I did for some slides a while
- back, after recreating about 75% without remembering that I had already written
- the same code within the last couple of months. It's amazing how often that
- happens, or I guess it would be amazing if my short term memory weren't so
- thoroughly scrambled from all the evil living I do.)
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