Is there a web application equivalent of Hypercard?

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Recently, I found an interesting Wiki/CMS/Database hybrid called Wagn, where the most important unit of information is the 'Card'. That terminology immediately made me think of Hypercard. As expected, there is some "Hypercard-ness" in that application.

Do you know of other web applications/frameworks with that "Hypercard-ness" thing, or if its successor still must be invented?

Note: I insist on web applications because I already know the desktop ones.

Looks like TileStack went away, and alas they took their source with them instead of releasing it as abandonware.. — , Feb 06 '11 at 15:53
@Michael I gather that the first thing you did after reading that was to search "Hypercard.js", for which this is the only result — Milad Naseri, Feb 15 '16 at 09:26

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 05 '10 at 20:16

Check out Runtime Revolution at http://www.runrev.com they have a language/IDE that is the spiritual successor to HyperCard. They also have a product in beta called RevWeb which is a plugin not unlike Flash that is able to execute stacks.

Now more on the web framework front, checkout Rodeo at http://alltiera.com/ which is a HyperCard like web application that generates HTML/CSS/JS stuff for you.

I am a customer of Runtime Revolution but I haven't used Rodeo so I can only help with building web applications using RevTalk (like HyperTalk) and not with Rodeo.

Rodeo is no more. You might want to delete the link. – Mark Nov 27 '13 at 03:54 — Mark, Nov 27 '13 at 03:54

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 23 '13 at 18:05

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There was http://tilestack.com for a while. Sadly it closed down again. It even imported HyperCard stacks.

answered Jan 23 '13 at 18:05

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '10 at 13:01

I have found that quote from Dan Ingalls in the book "Coders At Work" (p.382):

"A decade or two ago there was Hypercard [...] It's really strange that that whole experience didn't naturally go right into the web. I think there's still a role to be filled there with tools as simple as HyperCard and as immediate as the web. It would be cool if it went that way.".

If one of the inventor of Smalltalk is asking that question too, I'm almost sure that there is no valid answers...

Anyone interested in inventing that future?

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 27 '10 at 21:05

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Google's AppEngine is being called the web Hypercard. http://www.skrenta.com/2008/04/appengine_web_hypercard_finall.html

Googel App Engine - http://code.google.com/appengine/

answered Mar 27 '10 at 21:05

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Interesting article, but Google App Engine lacks the RAD tools offered by Hypercard. Anyway, the comments are mentioning several other technologies (such as Jaxter). I will check them. – Gabriel Cuvillier Mar 31 '10 at 05:16

Is there a web application equivalent of Hypercard?

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