| Weblog: | The path to unified interaction | |
| Subject: | The XForms alternative | |
| Date: | 2004-07-21 04:23:49 | |
| From: | l0b0 | |
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Perhaps what is needed is something like XForms, where the user agent (in the OS' case, window manager) determines how to display abstract UI contents. Take the standard menus for example: These can be coded as a hierarchical structure, some (like bookmarks folders) referring to external sources, others specifying things like a _preferred_ keyboard shortcut (which should be overridden by the OS if already used), text label, icon, target, etc.. I'm not pushing for XForms here, just the idea that the application should specify as little as possible how it should be displayed, and leave the rest to the OS / window manager. |
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