Re: [NTLK] Newton II: A gentler approach

From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 10:59:30 PST


On Thursday 13 March 2003 18:43, rpatel_at_accelrys.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I still think the simplest approach is to abstract the newton-isms from
> the
> underlying OS so it could sit on top of anything - win32, wince, osx,
> linux etc
>
> I think the closest in terms of the newt ethos in modern terms is
> something
> like 'chandler' http://www.osafoundation.org/Chandler_rel._0.1.htm or
> 'spring'
> http://www.usercreations.com/spring/
>
> They're certainly not the newt but adding newt-isms to something like
> 'chandler' or 'spring' would be fairly achievable

Well, If we're going to talk user interfaces, how about this one?

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pad++/

Zooming user interfaces seem more natural to a PDA to me, anyway.

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