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Article #8166Re: "Hypercard Stack Design Guidelines" book
From: Jeffrey Perry
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1989 21:39
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1989 21:39
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In article <189@limbo.Intuitive.Com>, taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes:
>Just wondering if anyone has heard anything about, or had a chance to
>read through, the newly released "HyperCard Stack Design Guidelines"
>book from Addison-Wesley. It's an official publication from Apple
>and is part of the Apple Technical Library.
>
> (looks like it's going to retail at $16.95)
>
> -- Dave Taylor
I have the Stack Design Guidelines manual and can't say that it's been
of any real use. It is mostly non-technical, which isn't necessarily a
bad thing, but I was hoping for something that would bridge the gap between
Apple's bundled Hypercard manual and the Goodman handbook. It has a biblio-
graphy that might prove useful to some stack designers. The format is a
bit too cutesy for my taste, and slightly condescending in tone without
being very informative about how Hypercard itself is put together. The price
is $16.95. It might be worth having if your department/company will spring
for it. Otherwise borrow someone else's. The bottom line is that I do NOT
find myself consulting it when I design or edit a stack; for that I still use
Danny Goodman.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!princeton!phoenix!pucc!JEFF From: JEFF@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Jeffrey Perry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: "Hypercard Stack Design Guidelines" book Message-ID: <10164@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Date: 20 Nov 89 21:39:04 GMT References: <189@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Reply-To: JEFF@pucc.Princeton.EDU Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 21 Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article