Re:StretchText
by kwatsonafter on Sunday July 24, 2022 @12:08PM
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I was going to link to this; top form fellow Engelbartian!
Have they fixed the Firefox 2.0/XSLT dependency in Hyperscope yet?
I'm not related to this in any way – so I can't speak for them. That said, the dependency is still mentioned in the Readme.
Provided that there are dependencies like Dojo and that that this was written in a time, when everything claiming seriousness was expected to look Java-ish, I'd guess, it may need a complete rewrite to fit the modern ecosystem. (Disclaimer: I didn't have a closer look at the code.)
[1] https://hyperscope.org
[2] https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/154/86/
[3] https://github.com/BradNeuberg/hyperscope
Note regarding realism: In my naivety, I once expected option-based content organization and composition, much like in StretchText, to become an inevitable feature of multi-platform presentation, when mobile clients arrived. Surely, there was no way to present content in a manner that would suit needs both for mobile presentation and traditional desktop presentations at once (regarding length, level of detail and feature richness), posing a serious economic challenge for any content production. Well, then we got mobile first. ;-)