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Issues that we have to deal with sooner or later.

Implement backgrounds like HyperCard does.

Support deprecated SuperTalk syntax ?

Support porting from SC to FC ?

Should an undeclared variable = litteral string of the var's name ? ( should be 'empty' instead )

Support doMenu ? ( I strongly urge us to )

Support the interception (overloading) of the native messages of FreeCard ?

Example: intercept a function to do it differently. Or do it like MC and RR do it "to speed things up dramatically".

Implement menus as buttons ? ( I propose a new "menu" object )

Dial command versus telephony API

Support Quicktime ?

Support platform specific extensions ?

Support the XCMD interface ?

Clone HyperCard 's ScriptTranslator ?

Web services, SOAP, XML-RPC, XML, etc.

Scripting Languages :

• FreeScript

• Java

• JudoScript?

• JavaScript?

• Python

• etc

Message-Passing Issues :

• Do we want a FrontScript ?

• Do we want a BackScript ?

• Do we want stacks to also be a container of substacks ?

• If so, then messages in a substack get passed along to the stack script of the parent stack.

• Do we want substacks to be a container of sub-substacks ?

• Do we want to support Groups ?

• If so, then the parts of the group pass the msg to the Group, and the card/bkgnd Group passes the msg to the current card.

FreeCard will not run on OS 9. Only OS X ( any version ) and above.

Therefore, we'll have to discuss whether or not OS 9 is worth supporting

Considering :

• how out of date it's version of Java is ;

• how hard it is to develop for a Java VM that old.