>       (I, personally, don't care at all about the latter goal just
> because one of the charms of Squeak -- to me anyway -- is that it is
> a rich environment with powerful authoring at many levels. So, e.g.,
> I do not like the Adobe PDF reader that will not allow me to make
> comments, annotations, etc. And I think Squeak media that don't allow
> the "reader" to also be an author are really just throwbacks to
> simple minded consumerism and computerism.)
>
> Squeak Central's notion, which I think is shared my many on the list,
> is to have a minimal sized download that can automatically pull in
> further stuff from the Internet when needed or when advised. That is,
> I would like to see the dynamic late binding preserved (as though the
> Internet itself were the holder of the image and could provide
> resources automatically as needed).
>
Dear Alan,
This may all be all right for some people, and idealistic, but are you
considering new people. I see some new people to computing who have a really
hard time just using a web browser or email client. Using Squeak on Windows
deviates from the HCI principle of familiarity, dragging an image over an
exe isn't normal for Windows. Installing Squeak on Linux is a complex
operation in  itself. I'd question any user, task and situation analysis
that have been done.
Regards,
Gary
Excuse the newbie teaching the master.