On Jan 18, 3:20 pm, Arndt Roger Schneider <arndt.ro...@addcom.de> wrote: > There has been no advancement in GUI-Design. Today it looks and > behaves just the way Bill Atkinson designed it.
That doesn't even begin to equate to a lack of advancement. It's also not true in the least. > Technical revolutions are made by disruptive thoughts, > which are never collective. Revolutions are statistical anomalies, so it's best not to depend on them for progress. It's not even apparent what revolution is necessary here. > ...The problem with gui-design:It requires an graphical artist, > a well versed writer, a software architect and a programmer. > The first two job description are the important ones. > > ...No OS-vender is going to allow that, it equals > lost control. > You need to go look at the people Apple, MS, Google, et al. hire; this statement is just patently false too. Plus, after a certainly level of functionality, the OS vendor does become rather irrelevant. Otherwise, the web would have never taken off an application platform: the HTML standard provides the smallest widget set of just about anything discussed, though it's painting / layout capabilities are both simultaneously far advanced and far worse. Yet, it is likely the way of the future for a large portion of us, like it or not. Adam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
