Dear  _why

Please be reassured!!

I love shoes and will wear them for ever!

The tinyness is important, I honour you for your commitment to this, as Schumacker said

"Small is beautiful"

It already is meeting my needs - I use it for any utility I need right now; ruby rocks and shoes is its sole mate!!



_why wrote:
With ShoesFest and the upcoming release, I think it would be good to
talk about some common stuff people are going to bring up and what
the general feeling is about Shoes right now.

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== TINYNESS ==

Is Shoes going to get new widgets?  Menus?  Toolbars?  OpenGL?

Doubtful.  Menus, maybe.  But keep in mind that Shoes has about the
same number of controls as HTML.  But, unlike HTML, you can draw
your own widgets.  So, actually, it's closer to Flash I guess.

Shoes is already a 2-3 meg download on most platforms.  I want to
slim that down.  Just the stuff already in Shoes keeps me very, very
busy!

A few quotes to back up why Shoes is small.

  "By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation
  sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems."
    -- A. Whitehead

  (I take this to mean that you should be able to keep the basics
  of Shoes in your mind rather than always consulting a manual.)

  Syntax is often suggested as a problem area in textual languages,
  but in our study users reported that syntax errors were few once
  they were familiar… Textual languages are compact, efficient, and
  can be developed in less time than graphical languages.
    -- Bonnie Nardi

  (She goes on to say that textual languages are "compact" when
  they focus on ten basic commands and branch out from there.)



  

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