Userland.com: UserLand releases MacBird as Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 3, 2000

[ Thanks to Luke
Tymowski
for this link. ]

“MacBird: The Open Source graphic user interface builder and
runtime.
“

“On 1/3/00 we released the source code of this classic Macintosh
application. It’s a draw program with grouping and alignment that’s
used to design and run graphic user interfaces.”

“In the age of the Web it may have new relevance, because it
employs UI techniques and consistency that may have been lost as
“coolness” became the standard, not ease of use and user
performance….”

“It should be easy to port MacBird to Windows, BeOs and Linux.
It wants to be cross-platform, to include the most popular user
platforms in a compatible network of graphic user interfaces that
go beyond what web browsers can do. And of course since it’s open
source it can be baked into the browsers, probably quite
easily.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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