Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:23:20 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Andrew Hannam" <hannama@fan.net.au> Cc: "FreeBSDSmall" <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Andrzej Bialecki" <abial@nask.pl> Subject: RE: Command-line i/f vs WWW i/f Message-ID: <Version.32.19981006001935.00e3cd10@pop.wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <000401bdf065$da48a900$0104010a@andrewh.famzon.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810051410490.4561-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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At 15:41 05-10-98 , Andrew Hannam wrote:
>> I personally am a big hater of WWW config interfaces... but that's just
>> me. IMHO it's useful mostly for marketing hype and (maybe) for people who
>> are complete newbies, but for those who want to get the job done it just
>> stands in the way... OTOH, perhaps I had just a bad experience - that one
>> I tried to use was completely useless, because I could do the same job
>> much quicker using command-line i/f with completion...
>
>I agree they can be bad, and I share your love of the command line. However,
>a well designed set of pages can do the job and be much easier to use for
>newbie's or those without the time to study manuals. This probably includes
>most people and applications for this type of device other than (as they are
>sometimes called in my country) "propeller-heads" such as me (and you).
True, yet see my other post about the ideas I have a this point about CLI
vs WWW. Enough to say that should we have to implement the www pages, we
need a very minimal HTTP 1.0 compliant daemon, plus the pages, and that all
mounts against the diskspace, then again, giving the complete redesign we
might have lying before us of the commands, that would not be a critical
point.
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl>
ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises
Network/Security Specialist
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