Re: A Visit from Saint Woz

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From: pe... Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1989 05:53

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> > "Now Pulldowns, now Buttons, now Dialogs, too.

> Huh.  Pulldowns suck.  Get Dropdowns.

Dropdowns suck worse than pulldowns. Popups are by far the best way to do it,
but Apple's crippled version of the Star user interface has set a truly foul
precedent... and both pulldowns and dropdowns are part of it.

Along with such abortions as single-button mice (yeh, GEM and Windows work
with multiple button mice, but they only use *one* of them!), Trashcans, and
forcing programs to handle their own expose events (yes, another reason X
sucks).
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva <pe...@sugar.hackercorp.com>
`-_-'
 'U`  "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"

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From: pe...@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: A Visit from Saint Woz
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Date: 17 Dec 89 05:53:31 GMT
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