Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richard Gaskin <ambassador at ...> writes:
>
>> Rather than the IDE try to guess what I'm going, perhaps it could
>> simply provide options for the selected object and let me make my
>> own choices.
>
> Now, Richard, runrev knows what's best for you better than you do.
> Just let them make the decisions and stop Questioning Authority.
> <g>
Ah, I see: Steve Jobs faked his death so he could secretly work on
LiveCode? :)
Like the File -> New Stack submenu, the Inspector's shortcomings are
obvious enough that I'm confident what we have now is merely a quickie
prototype for a much better user experience to come as v8 moves closer
to completion.
> ...next stop The Ribbon...
At the risk of having more food thrown at me, I actually like many
things about the Ribbon. I have great respect for data-driven the
methodology employed by Jensen Harris and his team, very similar to
Marissa Mayer's best work at Google before she left and their apps
became cluttered.
If you look back as Harris' design blog during the Ribbon's development
and read between the lines it becomes clear that the implementation we
see today is a compromise likely driven by impatient middle managers
more than where the team was headed.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story-of-the-ribbon.aspx>
Not useful in a development tool like LiveCode, but for many consumer
apps I think the Ribbon can be a good choice, perhaps better with more
time in researching to refine it.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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