Feature: The Home Card is Dead, long live the Home Card

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Other than other HC clones, the closest thing to the HyperCard model is the WWW -- you know, the tool that IS departments, search engines, dotComs, Social Media, Ad agencies love and typical users love and hate? Yes THAT one. Not the mention the authoring nightmare with its proliferation of UI frameworks. Ok, I'll save my gripes for another day. The point is that even the Web has a "home" page.

The notion of a Home Card goes beyond the legal implications. Frankly, if there is any chance of WyldCard making a difference to the common user, navigating orientation has got to be it. This is why Man has used the location of the sun, the North Star over millennia, and in urban living the landmarks of a local Church, the Eiffel tower, the Bay Bridge, the Empire State building, and Mount Diablo in my home town do the trick.

WyldCard is walking a tight rope already, but if the name is a legal problem, I propose bringing the Home Card concept with a different nomenclature; perhaps something like Home Base or Landmark (Card). The latter could be an interesting exploratory redesign that can leverage "the Marked Card concept in WyldCard as a way to dynamically change navigation based on context.
Finally, WyldCard needs to be Web enabled. But more on that on its own feature "issue".

[ooper-zz]

I wanted to follow up on the notion of the missing Home stack. I still think there should be a default one. It doesn't need to be like Apple's Home. I also think that, the Home Card would make an awesome entry point for a derivative WyldCard application, should WyldCard become an application platform.