Linked by Kevin Adams on Thu 26th Dec 2002 03:38 UTC
Pahtz writes: "A very alpha release of The Humane Environment (THE) for MacOS was made on Christmas Eve. Jef Raskin, creator Apple's Macintosh, and author of the book "The Humane Interface", is the leader of the open-source THE Development Team."
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"THE will be for geeks and people who have the time and desire to relearn everything"
THE is not for geeks. it's for people. reading the manual makes it seem hard, but it is extremely easy to use. Raskin is very, very thorough about his design decisions, and the result is both easy to use and fast. (point and click, which is supposedly here to stay, is *very* slow, and often confusing)
"Separate editing and command modes? Check."
sort of. the command mode is actually a quasimode. this is essentially a mode that only exists while a user makes a kinetic gesture of some sort, in the case of THE, holding the shift key down.
This is vastly superior to a regular mode because short term memory fades quickly, but sensory input doesn't fade, eliminating mode errors altogether.
Raskin would find vi strongly disagreeable, imo.
"I think that we'll be stuck with WIMP until the day I get home and I say to my computer 'Hi, Janet, please order pizza, turn the heating on and start recording the movie on channel 6'. That could be made right now, so lets hope that one day it'll happen..."
Never gonna happen. There's a bizarre link between speech recognition (very possible) and natural language processing (impossible) in many people's minds. Speech recognition is simply an input method. My question is, how different is *saying* "Hi, Janet..." from *typing* "Hi, Janet..."?