The window placement features barely help to avoid screen clutter and real world metaphors (like browsing through a pile item per item) seems to be exactly the interaction style the inventors of the GUI wanted to get rid of. None of the shown features improve productivity of end users. Besides of the fact that his claim about (obviously) Microsoft not research 3D at the desktop is untrue, Project Looking Glass in the current stage is 3D – but that’s all about it. We think there are some deficiencies there.īefore making that claim he ran through a demonstration of the interface. They want to keep it to the way things have been done for that past ten years. The dominant company that provides the desktop doesn’t want to show you that because they do not want to do the work that actually reinvents the way things have been done. There is a demo video with Jonathan Schwartz ( weblog), Executive Vice President of Software at Sun Microsystems, who claims: Sun released a public version of their 3D desktop Project Looking Glass. Posted on JJanuCategories Programming Leave a comment on Bootstrapping with Tinderbox and Zope WorldKit It can be imagined like working on a creative wiki-style stack of notes here while presenting a weblog and article collections with options for user interactions (subscriptions, comments, RSS) there. The idea behind this is a) to be much more flexible about the way content is presented, b) to hide the publishing process completely in the background (just save to update) and – most importantly – c) to organize notes and articles in Tinderbox fairly independently from the way it is presented. I may even consider to have two different Tinderbox files for one weblog: one to author the actual content and the other to design the presentation logic and the hierarchy. The ^children(…)^ command will then be replaced with some kind of method that pulls results from a SQL query. I need to get used to this abstraction layer for a while before moving on with the next level: getting rid of the HTML export and FTP upload altogether and importing the Tinderbox file into a database directly. There is still a lot of work to do, but the goal is to use the Tinderbox templates only to define an absolute minimum. For example here is the template of the current start page: This means I do not design this pages with the template files Tinderbox uses for the HTML export. I am bootstrapping: The start page of my weblog now renders through a homemade skinning system based on Zope and Page Templates.
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