Friday, April 05, 2002

Radio UI Griping Given the following Windows dialog: Where would you expect the "Confirm" button on this dialog to be? Wrong. It's on the right, following the MacOS UI guidelines: Radio really shows its Macintosh roots, especially with UserTalk. I think the Windows version of Radio should follow the Windows UI guidelines, and the Mac version should follow the Mac conventions. It's not that it's a terrible crime against humanity to put dialog boxes in the opposite places, it just forces people to slow down and think about things longer than they probably should. I bet the Win32 version of Radio could become a little bit of a nicer environment if some of the Windows UI conventions were put into place. 6:23:13 PM    comment []

Lots of progress has been made in the past 2-3 days. Last night I got Cocoon and Xindice talking to each other. I'm starting to make some decent progress on understanding everything, which is promising. Reading the Xindice Developer's Guide, I found an interesting snippet where you can "insert" a block of XML from another XMLDB or URL into an existing set of XML data. Then the lightbulb went off. OPML Transclusion, anyone? 3:23:43 PM    comment []