Just like to say I love the interface. Its very slick.
It would take some testing with "real" waves to see true userability,
but its this sort of alternative presentation that I think WFP based
things should be looking towards; not cloneing what was done as
wave.google, but looking towards new methods of user/wave interaction.

On Nov 21, 1:23 am, Kai Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll do some optimizing for different screen resolutions-- I expect it gets
> really squished in the iPad's vertical orientation.
>
> Large blips get cut down to one line, so as to view many blips at once.  The
> navigation view is a multi-tiered inbox, to easily scan for updated blips.
>
> To see whole blips and get to the Wave Editor, I'll add a "View" button.
> But what does it do?  It could:
>
>    - Open Blips within the middle column.  This is nice because you still
>    see a list of replies to the current blip on the right.
>    - Open Blips in a new Wave Editor view with the traditional threading
>       - This degrades the conceptual integrity of the Navigation view
>       somewhat
>    - Other suggestions welcome!
>
> I'll check out wala-compiler later this week.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Torben Weis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2010/11/20 Kai Chang <[email protected]>
>
> > James, on GWT/GXP:  I'm also unsure about this.  I've been watching the
> >> progress of Lightwave, in case Tensor turns out to be difficult to 
> >> implement
> >> on the WIAB architecture.
>
> > Lightwave will definitely get a pure JavaScript web front-end. I have some
> > working OT code in the wala-compiler project. It needs some fixes, but it
> > works good enough for a nice demo :-)
>
> > Once I got all the federation stuff up and running, I would like to return
> > to the client-side. Since I am a terrible web designer myself, using Tensor
> > sounds like a good idea.
>
> > Greetings
> > Torben
>
> >> Torben:  Good point about ascending trees.  I've added the ability to move
> >> up and down trees freely.  Let me know if the following action is easily
> >> discoverable, and feels right:
>
> >>http://fleetinbeing.net/tensor/
>
> >> On the iPad, one should be able to drag left and right along the whole
> >> tree without selecting anything new.  I believe this is the obvious 
> >> behavior
> >> you mentioned.  Free horizontal movement is desirable, but the CSS/JS isn't
> >> quite that robust at this point.  I'll think on how to implement this.
>
> >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Torben Weis <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >>> I like it, too.
>
> >>> One question: As I descend deeper into the tree, how am I supposed to
> >>> return to the root?
> >>> I tried it on the iPad and there the answer seems obvious, although it is
> >>> not implemented yet.
> >>> But how to go back with the mouse?
>
> >>> Greetings
> >>> Torben
>
> >>> 2010/11/20 James Purser <[email protected]>
>
> >>> Very nice, not sure how much work it would take to implement as GWT/GXP
> >>>> though.
>
> >>>> James
>
> >>>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Kai Chang <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >>>>> Here's the code, with the Apache V2 license:
>
> >>>>>https://github.com/syntagmatic/tensor
>
> >>>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Kai Chang <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >>>>>> Introducing Tensor: a UI concept for Wave in a Box
>
> >>>>>>http://fleetinbeing.net/tensor-v1/
>
> >>>>>> This iteration of Tensor focuses on problems related to:
>
> >>>>>>    - Large organizations
> >>>>>>    - Many waves in many contexts
> >>>>>>    - Long waves and deeply nested blips
>
> >>>>>> My solution is an arbitrarily long chain of Miller columns.  There's
> >>>>>> plenty more to decide on to make this view truly usable.  Conspicuously
> >>>>>> absent is the Wave Editor, or any way to get to it.
>
> >>>>>> Tensor-v1 is all static HTML/CSS/JS.  I just copied+pasted the Waves
> >>>>>> to create the Blips columns.  If someone has suggestions for 
> >>>>>> populating the
> >>>>>> prototype with dynamic content, that would help with usability testing.
>
> >>>>>> The top and bottom bars are fairly unresolved.  A persistent metadata
> >>>>>> display would be useful for many users.  For instance, my mom works in
> >>>>>> Information Services for US New and World Report.  She needs a way to 
> >>>>>> create
> >>>>>> and manage a controlled taxonomy to ensure content is findable.
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