Hi Philip and Richard,
apropos Zooming: we build in Mac like simple zooming a while ago....
http://www.lively-kernel.org/repository/lively-wiki/documentation/Zooming.xhtml
Best,
Jens
Am 01.07.10 05:12, schrieb Philip Weaver:
Hello Richard,
In April you wrote: "What would it take to make it easy to construct
and navigate such a zoom world in Lively Kernel?"
I hope you can spend some time to answer this question with a drawing:
*
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYWzJ6ByFTvFZGhqNmI2cGhfMjc5Z2Q3cjlrZ2Y&hl=en
<http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYWzJ6ByFTvFZGhqNmI2cGhfMjc5Z2Q3cjlrZ2Y&hl=en>
* http://www.lively-kernel.org/repository/lively-wiki/index.xhtml
Thanks,
Philip Weaver
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Richard Karpinski
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello Dan and everybody,
Smalltalk is wonderful. Making it work in virtually every browser
by coding the base system in Javascript is very clever and could
be marvelously useful. Enriching the current code to make Lively
Kernel suitable for awesome presentations well beyond what
PowerPoint could dream of has much appeal for me. I love neat
things that are useful and can be acquired inexpensively in money
and time. When such things have unbounded utility, Pavlov sets in
and I slather and drool. Keep it up, man. I don't mind that my
shirt gets wet.
But wait. How long does it take for someone to be comfortable
navigating around in a Lively Kernel world?
I'm sure it's not one of those things that takes weeks to get
into, but I worry that it might take an hour or two. What I want
is a system that computer experts can become competent with in
only a few minutes. It would be truly great if novices could get
there even faster. But who knows how to build such a system?
Today, I think no one knows how to do that. However, the late Jef
Raskin, father of the Macintosh and author of "The Humane
Interface", did. Given a charter to assist in getting around in a
patient's chart which was impossible to read when fully displayed
and awkward to navigate when magnified to be readable, Jef used
zooming to good effect. He wanted to call it a Flying User
Interface, not only because he liked flying and it felt like that,
but especially so he could call it (phonetically) a Phooey. He was
like that.
Anyway, he discussed the system in his book, but he left out some
details. When computer experts were trained to use the system.
they became comfortable and competent in less than TWO minutes.
But when utter novices, who maybe recognized the mouse as a thing
to push around, not speak into as Scotty did, they became fully
functional with the system in less than ONE minute.
I really like that. I want that. With such a system I could teach
a three year old to use it, or a 93 year old, or even a college
professor. I am NOT kidding, the first and second examples may
have time to spare, but the prof does not.
Why does it work so well? My theory is that for tens of millions
of years, our ancestors made it back to the nest, or we would not
be here today. Thus the talent for geographic navigation is built
into our DNA. We do not forget where the fridge is or where the
couch is. Often we can get to such places in the dark. If our
computer world is so arranged, people won't get lost so often. If
we can follow links by rolling into a thumbnail and can return by
recrossing that border it will seem natural to us.
What would it take to make it easy to construct and navigate such
a zoom world in Lively Kernel?
Richard
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