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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