From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6192a34d0c9ffe5b X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Tutor Web Site Shutting Down Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 16:56:00 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <7f53de8e-2400-4c87-a818-0b389e117c42@e21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <4d9eea12$0$302$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <2aeab5d1-fa6d-47de-ab53-9a8e6ab5f27a@h9g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <3a6f1fc2-3ae0-42d9-b483-d16cf7ab1566@x8g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <991499fb-bc24-4d7e-baf6-a9c0e16333e6@k22g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <291504a4-ec55-45f1-bf7f-13078bf71c3e@m10g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: KGhyV6PNovOBZHFNkmvbmA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:20294 Date: 2011-05-19T16:56:00+02:00 List-Id: Le Sat, 14 May 2011 23:22:14 +0200, Rugxulo a =C3=A9= crit: >> I don't want to have to learn a new interface every couple of months,= = >> which >> is the Google approach to software. (We can move buttons around anyti= me = >> we >> want.) Sadly, people like Firefox are trying to copy that brain-damag= ed >> approach. > > Unity? Gnome 3? KDE 4? MS Office ribbon? It's like people can't wait > to invent yet another "better" (but incompatible) way of doing things.= You got one heavily standard UI, right at your fingers : the one which i= s = made of HTML+CSS+JS (sorry, but JS here is unavoidable). This is not wel= l = suited for application with kind of real-time feed-back requirements, bu= t = that should be good enough for many thing (as long as communication via = = sockets, between the UI and the core application, is not a trouble=E2=80= =A6 this = also intensively consume serialization/deserialization). To be honest, = another drawback, is also the keyboard support (that's a real nightmare = to = properly handle the keyboard in a browser). -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9C c++; /* this makes c bigger but returns the old value */ =E2=80= =9D [Anonymous]