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Re: Does WTSIWYG make simplicity moot? (was Re: dtds

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• Subject: Re: Does WTSIWYG make simplicity moot? (was Re: dtds, schemas, xhtml, and multimedia technologies)
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:41:20 +1100
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From: "Paul Prescod" <paul@p...>

> Visualization tools are fine, but they should be visualizing the true 
> abstractions in the language you are "editing", not trying to hide them 
> from you with some thin, proprietary, quasi-abstraction layer.

Schneiderman's Direct Manipulation interface apparantly recommends

* continuous representation of the objects and actions of interest
* physical actions instead of complex syntax
* immediate and continuous feedback

I think there has been a general confusion that "physical actions
instead of complex syntax" somehow means "hiding the tags more" 
rather than "using the mouse more" (to put it a little simply.) 

Putting cost aside, one benefit of direct manipulation interfaces
is in presenting information in views that allow better physical 
manipulation. 

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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  • Does WTSIWYG make simplicity moot? (was Re: dtds, schemas,xhtml, and multimedia technologies)
    • From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
  • Re: Does WTSIWYG make simplicity moot? (was Re: dtds, schemas, xhtml, and multimedia technologies)
    • From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>

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