The future of Morphic (Was Re: Shrinking sucks!)
Brent Vukmer
brent.vukmer at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 22:59:40 UTC 2005
Sounds nifty, Juan! Have you talked with Todd Blanchard? IIRC, in
the "Brick" project Todd derived a parallel base Morph class using a
neat "copy methods from Morph as they get used" approach, and went on
to experiment with some cool-sounding UI stuff.
>
> Now, I'm working on a kind of morphic overhaul. I'm working on a NewMorph
> class that can be used with the regular "full" Morphic, or with my reduced
> version. I took some ideas form John Maloney on how to improve Morphic, and
> at the same time, removing lots of functionality. The central part is to
> make each NewMorph decide the coordinate system it will use for drawing and
> for locating its submorphs. It will also include better quality zooming with
> antialiasing and total pixel independence. I will probably not write new
> browsers and programming tools, the old ones are pretty good.
>
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