iPAQ Squeak development usability ("Access vs. Media")

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Nov 1 21:20:39 UTC 2001


I agree.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 12:44 PM -0800 11/1/01, Craig Latta wrote:
>	For what it's worth... I just noticed another virtual display utility
>for WinCE, at www.nyditot.com. This one affords a virtual display of
>arbitrary size up to 9999x9999 (!), in any of all four possible
>orientations, with a quick way of viewing any arbitrary section at the
>native screen resolution, and smooth scrolling.
>
>	Now I've got more screen real estate on a handheld than I usually use
>on any other machine (although I guess it's virtual estate, or perhaps
>surreal estate. :)
>
>
>-C
>
>p.s.
>
>	Of course...
>
>-	This should probably be built-in to all windowing systems, especially
>handheld ones.
>-	Squeak could do this, and probably should.
>-	Lots of other systems have done this (e.g., Self's Kansas, various
>virtual desktop thingies in Unix). This one feels a lot easier to
>navigate to me, largely because it's operated directly with the fingers
>and a stylus.
>
>--
>Craig Latta
>composer and computer scientist
>craig.latta at netjam.org
>www.netjam.org
>crl at watson.ibm.com
>Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]


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