Hello John,
I Hope all is well with you, your family and friends and students.
I saw the post below by Karl Ellinger and thought of you – thought of you with lovingkindness.
-Dan
Karl Ellinger & Elisabeth Geishauser
(Dan note: re: SuperCard FlameThrower Roadster), (thinking about John Johnston’s group upload/download Supercard Script library)
Karl Ellinger & Elisabeth Geishauser
Hello Mark,
I do hope that you have been spared from Long-COVID,
as your message reads well and interesting.
So, I learned about your projects to create internet-enabled tools
based on SC. Thanks to SuperTalk, presentations tailored to
specific needs can be created, which is also desirable for the
Internet.
However, you note that the browser-plugin project was poorly
managed in the past, showed errors, and proved to be unstable.
Moreover, the “server-side tool” was considered too slow.
You took over its source code years later, fixed stumbling bugs,
and accelerated the interpretation many times over. Simple website
demos were made possible, but unfortunately, they stumbled with
heavy data transfer.
Then the funding stalled, and further investments are needed
regarding source code and publishing rights.
As an observer who was only peripherally involved but
understood the problems, you explain them in-depth now – thank
you! I am also interested to read about your collaboration with –
David Coggeshall
Hello David, I also thank you very much for your interesting
comment!
I gather from it that you generated interactive SVG web pages
together with Mark using SuperTalk.
You also used the program to produce components of websites
and created large area maps with JavaScript for the Google Maps JS
API, some of which you wrote using SuperTalk.
I acknowledge all of this as commendable. I am impressed and
express my interest in the details, as I am amazed that SuperTalk
can be integrated into other programming languages.
I look forward to hearing from you
and wish you both all the best!
Karl