OT - Squeak and the Broader Software Community
tim Rowledge
tim at rowledge.org
Fri Jul 7 23:04:07 UTC 2006
On 7-Jul-06, at 2:45 PM, Daniel Poon wrote:
> +1
>
> UI widgets are a solved problem. It is part of the operating
> system. Like writing a file system is done, writing UI widgets is
> done too.
Now that I have to disagree with. There is no OS/GUI /platform that I
have so much as heard rumours of that qualify as having 'solved UI
widgets'. They are all sufficiently steeped in effluvium as to smell
bad.
I don't think filing systems are 'done ' either; certainly microsoft
hasn't managed to finish that damn big file system it's been
promising RSN since I first moved to the US in 91. Unix is not
exactly a shining example either.
Just because lots (all?) of the current commercial platforms do
something doesn't mean it is a good - or even acceptable - idea.
tim
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