--- Scott Wallace <Scott.Wallace at disney.com> wrote:

> The "Simple halos" were a once-off experiment requested by Alan a 
> couple of years ago.  The idea was to have a very small number of 
> quite large handles, each with suggestive graphics, which included an 
> "escape" that allowed the user to bring up a full set of handles when 
> desired.  In this experiment, we were targeting quite young children, 
> so consistency with the "professional programmers' system" was never 
> an issue.  With much larger graphics and without other handles to 
> share the real-estate, there were clearly very different constraints 
> and goals at play here.

I'd still like to see something like this, maybe a variant, for newbies (who
might or might not be children). In fact, what's emerging here in my mind is
something I _suspect_ is kind of like the omniUser stuff I have heard about
from time to time. Layered access, a la HyperCard. Simple menu choices. Simple
morph choices. Simple (and larger?) handles on objects' halos. Simple viewers.
IOW, start with a small sub-set environment. This doesn't have to be a separate
product, obviously, but a project.

Is anyone working on this kind of thing? I can't find anything like it.

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