Hi David --

The copying and pasting sounds very tedious very quickly.

Duane Maxwell and his group at exobox did a great thing, which was to 
run Mozilla as a Squeak plugin -- they used it to catch cases that 
they had not written specific UIs for, and I had the impression that 
this worked very well. It would be interesting to see whether this is 
still a reasonable idea.... this is one of those cases where it is 
probably not worth it to even try to reverse engineer a hefty subset 
of modern browser features (as ugly as they might be)....

But I'm curious as to the opinions of others on the list regarding this issue.

Cheers,

Alan

At 9:37 AM -0700 8/15/03, David Faught wrote:
>Well, I've stepped in it again.  I bought a used, old tablet PC with
>the idea of doing cool, wirelessly mobile things fairly inexpensively
>and found out something I didn't know before.  The Windows 95/98
>handwriting recognition software commonly used on these things is
>licensed "per install".  In other words, if it gets re-installed on a
>PC that it was formerly installed on, it counts as another install and
>is charged for again.
>
>It happens that on the particular tablet that I bought, the hard drive
>was wiped before the sale, as a reasonable precaution.  So now there is
>no handwriting recognition unless I want to pay the licensing fee for
>the software again (which I don't).  The pen does work, but strictly as
>a mouse pointer.  I do have a regular keyboard too, but that detracts
>somewhat from the "cool, wirelessly mobile" idea.
>
>Enter Squeak.  I was planning to use Squeak on this tablet anyway, but
>now I'm thinking that it may be the primary application, and using
>Genie should work for lots of things.  For me, the one big lack in
>living in a Squeak environment is a full-featured web browser.  So my
>question is this:  how feasible is it to use Squeak in place of the
>native handwriting recognition, copying text out of Squeak and pasting
>it into other native OS applications, like the web browser?  How usable
>will this really be?  I'll let you know after I try it, but I'm looking
>for other experience or opinions.
>
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