On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:07:13PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: > If one doesn't care about consistency of history, it's fine to just > display messages immediately as they arrive. If one does care about > it, then you can't. Or at least, I believe not - and nobody has > proposed a system that does so.
That's a false dichotomy. Systems frequently display messages as they arrive, sometimes with an indication of missing history and sometimes without; and systems frequently insert messages in the history when they arrive, generally with some indication that this has happened. And then there's the IRC model where messages just get displayed as they arrive, and the user can deal with any lossage. Systems that do variations on this include LINE Hipchat Slack As it turns out, very few people anymore are using thermal paper consoles http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/la36.html and UIs can go back and correct history when we learn more detail. -andy _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
