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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"Lastly, I'd have to agree that THE really is getting rid of WIMP... no windows, icons, menus or pointers in this
thing. However, the same might not be said about Raskin's idea of a zooming interface (also described in
The Humane Interface). "
It is running in a window on your screen shot. Let's see a version
running on a plain cp/m or DOS screen.
How do you handle several documents at once, and copy text from one to
the other? Are the line-ending codes at the end of each line, or at
the end of each paragraph (as needed by DTP programs)?
How do you switch in this system from editing text to laying out a
page with graphics, typography, tables, footnotes, etc?
IMO Raskin is trying to solve a problem that has not been a problem
for 15 years. (However, there is a need for a mouseless editor for
handheld computers.)
I want to see his humane video editing program (with multiple
audio tracks).