At 11:38 02.07.00 +1000, Karl Goiser wrote:
Proposition: Either do something radically different from current user interfaces or use those interfaces.
Can you explain why you think these are the only alternatives? As I tried to explain, I think, for user acceptance, it's sufficient to come up with a meta-look and feel that has the essence of the usual platforms UIs (Mac, Windows, KDE, Gnome)
You are right. But what if you don't implement the entire interface natively? Just the basic bits that everybody wants :-), like windows and dialogues and data entry. With the rest, you can supply a Morphic rectangle which blits into part of a native window.
Which is the way to go IMHO. But not for something completely different but for the essential look. I don't give too much on Tim's rant. Parcplace might have failed but Sun successed with Swing.
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