Thanks for the feedback. Your suggestions warrant investigation. The key point is that with the power of html/css/javascript everything you suggest (and too much more) is easy to do.
Although the eventual usability of jfile is very important, I suggest that we take it as a given that it can and will be done. For now it might be better to focus on bigger issues. Is this a fruitful direction? Are users going to cry over the fading of j.exe? Are J users going to embrace enough html/css/javascript to make there own GUI applications? Have browser standards converged enough that this route provides very good portability. Etc. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Sherlock, Ric <[email protected]>wrote: > > From: Eric Iverson > > > > The official J701 beta program starts now. > > > > See the beta page at the http://www.jsoftware.com > > (Systems > Download and then on the right Other Versions > Beta) > > > > This announcement to programming, but all discussion should take place > > in the beta forum. > > 32-bit Windows version installs fine. > The ability to display inline plots (SVG & PDF) in the log is a nice taste > of things to come. > > The functionality of the jfile window is a nice improvement. It is much > easier to navigate using the keyboard and takes fewer "clicks" to get things > done. > > Some more work formatting the jfile window will help convey the function of > the various bits. > * the currently selected file/folder should be more prominent and a > mouse-over tool tip could provide some feedback on what it is. > * The "buttons" (links that fire the goaction verb) should be > differentiated from "shortcuts" (links that fire the gosh, gofo or gofi > verbs). The former could be formatted to look like buttons. > * the functionality of the "new_name" button might be clearer if it was > called "rename_to" > * IMO it would be more natural for the ".." link to appear as the first > item in the listing of the current folder, rather than as part of the list > of shortcuts. > > * It seems to me that it would be useful to group the various distinct > parts of the page in <div> tags to aid with CSS formatting. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
