Groove becomes Hypercard through InfoPath spawning
My pals Daniel Shurman and KC Bolton and SB Chatterjee have been hammering away at the virtues of a Groove-InfoPath marriage and finally I saw the light of day. I know Dave Winer wouldn't like this proposal from long antipathy to Apple's 1980s practices but it feels compelling to propose that Groove should become the distributed global application version of ... HyperCard.
Daniel quotes Jon Udell on why this is necessary:
"To create a tool that can be injected into a Groove shared space, and that displays in the transceiver, you had to master some pretty esoteric skills. There are brilliant practioners of that art, but I'll never become one of them. More importantly, neither will a great many scripters who would otherwise love to reach into Groove's basket of services"
Neil Finlayson/Mysterian: 20/05/03 09:40
Yeah I know Ray Ozzie was heavily influenced by HyperCard
K.C. Bolton: 20/05/03 09:39
hmm
Neil Finlayson/Mysterian: 20/05/03 09:40
HyperCard->Notes->Web->Groove->InfoPath
K.C. Bolton: 20/05/03 09:40
Excellent!
Neil Finlayson/Mysterian: 20/05/03 09:41
I still think HyperCard is pretty amazing - each object readily scriptable by an end user
Neil Finlayson/Mysterian: 20/05/03 09:41
And that was in 1986!!
So how might this happen? Well InfoPath seems like the route everyone wants to explore ... look at the potential in the context of healthcare and HL7. We better call Hugh Pyle.
10:00:36 AM 
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