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From: barmar at bbnplanet.com (Barry Margolin)
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:01:27 GMT
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Subject: The Future of Tk?
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References: <371E964F.C531C2A@istar.ca> <371F11C2.3162025@ciril.fr> <4fv$ECA+JyH3EwbN@jessikat.demon.co.uk>
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Message-ID: <XtJT2.124$fQ1.12097@burlma1-snr2>
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In article <4fv$ECA+JyH3EwbN at jessikat.demon.co.uk>,
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Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>I take this completely differently; least astonishment for me is if
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>program X looks and behaves the same way no matter what keyboard, mouse
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>and screen I'm using. As a 'user' of the program X it shouldn't matter
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>what OS/WM is executing the code. I certainly don't want vi or emacs to
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>be different on the mac why should I treat word or excel differently?
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I would be very surprised if Netscape on the Macintosh presented a
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Windows-like user interface, rather than adopting the standard Macintosh
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user interface. Most end users don't switch between platforms much, so
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it's more important that all the programs on their system conform to their
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expectations, than that a particular program work the same across different
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platforms.
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--
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Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
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*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
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Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
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