Good digging, Bojhan. At this site: http://davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming
under the section 'VisiText', he writes: "VisiText was the first outliner to use the now-familliar expand and collapse outline display. " Probably not the definitive answer to your question, Charlie, but a good place to start. Of course, the idea could have come from Dave Winer's Aunt Ruth while he was munching her wonderful lattkes and she in turn might have got it from Rabbi Avram whose son just happened to be a geek. Cheers, Murli On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Bojhan Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > I acctually think so to, if you visit his website you can see that back > in 1987 he started using this in his interfaces ( > http://static.userland.com/misc/outliners/images/tank241pc/outliner1.gif > ) and > http://static.userland.com/misc/outliners/images/more11c/outline1.gif . > His website beign http://www.outliners.com/ . > > Best Regards, > > Bojhan Somers > > Murli Nagasundaram schreef: > > I recall outliner programs such as ThinkTank (by Dave Winer?) as being > among > > the first to use the +/- notation for expand and collapse. This was in > the > > mid to late 1980's. > > > > - murli > > > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
