Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 02 Dec 1996 22:05:47 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: text, menu/dialog/windowing, library, ideas? 
Message-ID:  <3105.849593147@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Dec 1996 12:18:52 %2B1030." <199612030148.MAA07524@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> HTML is too weak.  We had this shot down last time 8(  How do you plan 
> do do, say, a progress indicator?  (redirects? server push?)

I could say "we could use java" but then you'd just say "You said you
wanted to use lynx, you hypocrite", to which I could respond "damn,
why don't we just blow off the CUI users?"  And then you'd say "Yeah,
right.  Maybe in another year, after you've got X launching from
sysinstall and the screams from various old-timers has died down.
Besides, if we're willing to do that then we can just use Tk or XForms
or something." and I'd say "Grrrr, OK, you party-pooper!"

So I guess we're back to the pre-HTML arguments. :-)

					Jordan



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3105.849593147>