Hi Jeff,

Just from poking around it looks like...

Universal tiles are just another representation for etoy scripts.
There are three representations that I've investigated
 visual scripts
 textual scripts
 universal tiles are a sort of compromise
    they look like visual scripts, but show more smalltalk syntax

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On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Jeff Sparkes wrote:

> I've been playing with etoys with my 9 year old daugther. =20
> Now I'm wondering what universal tiles are.  They look a bit different; =
> nicer
> to my eye anyway.  I don't know what else that implies. =20
>
> The lack of information suggests I should stay away, but there also not =
> a giant
> amount on etoys either.
>
> This message seems to imply it's a one way transition:
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2002-April/012380.=
> html
>
> Perhaps a little explanation from Ted that we could put on the swiki =
> would
> be nice.  Hint, hint.
>
>