[Gllug] On Linux desktops...

[Bruce Richardson]

On 10/17/01, 4:45:22 PM, David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> 
wrote regarding Re: [Gllug] On Linux desktops...:


> >example), because a text-based interface is incredibly limited in terms 
of
> >interaction - how do you design a drop-down menu in text?

> Well, perhaps someone can do a better job than Netscape, but both lynx
> and w3m handle drop-down lists in Web forms with large numbers of
> entries much more gracefully than Netscape does.

Quite.  I have fond memories of the old Borland text IDE.  It had a whole 
range of UI features - Drop-down menus, dialog boxes, floating resizable 
windows - and all of it could be accessed with the mouse.

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Bruce

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