|> To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont)
|> :
|>
|> > At the risk of being branded a Luddite, I believe that a great deal of
|> > care needs to be excercised in the addition of features to fdesign. One
|> > of the things that I, and I suspect many others, like about it is its
|> > simplicity. It is intuitive and easy to use -- the authors deserve a
|> > great deal of praise for this alone.
|>
|> Yea and verily! Exactly the point I have been trying to make.
|>
Luddite! It's more like Tryglodite (sp?)! (The offending part of the email
is missing above, actually.)
I have looked around and have *not* found anything that comes close to Xforms
in simplicity (and effectiveness, except for Java, perhaps, which I have been
playing around with while trying to secure my job by looking for Federal grant
funding).
In reply to the missing offense...
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I have also been playing with Solaris 2.6, and if you think that you're
going to get away with those antiquated mail readers, think again. There is
SIMS (Solstice Internet Mail Server) and SIMC (Solstice Internet Mail Client)
which make your grand father's maitool ot dtmail look like an email reader for
the Abacus. (/cgi-bin/exit-to?http://www.sun.com/reply/sims/)
Once again, I think that it is *ok* for people to post graphics because it is
what the list is *all* about. You probably can't display graphics at home,
on that weird looking, non-bitmapped terminal. Most of the time, however,
when you get stuff from Xforms, you're hard at work, using that super-duper
workstation that is capable of all. Double-click the attachment and the mail
reader starts your favorite tool (e.g., acroread) that understand the contents
of the attachment, and makes sense of it. Then there is Java...
It is late. There is funding from Jerry Lewis's Kids to apply for... (Lewis'
or Lewis's? The latter is recommended by Bill Safire..."On Language: Sunday
Times Magazine, 1989." Just use what sounds right, he said. "Lewis's" sounds
better). Yup, it is late!
Hasta la vista, baby...(T2 or spin-spin relaxation time; yup, late!!!)
DCS
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