From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-10-10T16:24:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Hypergraph?

Phil Tomson wrote:
> In article <416897ED.9080003@email.byu.edu>,
> Jamis Buck  <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote:
> 
>>Phil Tomson wrote:
>>
>>>Sure it sounds cool, but I'm just not sure that the hyperbolic view adds 
>>>that much advantage for a user interface...  There's probably an easier 
>>>way.
>>
>>It not only sounds cool, it *is* cool. I've used an interface that used 
>>a hyperbolic tree, and it is *really* slick. I think it would be great 
>>to have something like that in Tycho.
>>
> 
> 
> I guess I'm thinking that it would be nice to be able to use Tycho on a 
> PDA and I'm a bit worried that the hyperbolic view might be a bit 
> heavy-weight for a PDA.  (it sounds computationally expensive, but maybe 
> it isn't that bad)

I'd love to have something like this on a PDA. (drool)

But I don't even own a PDA that will run Ruby, and there aren't many
that will. Even those have some features missing, I think. Kero? Aren't
you an expert there?

And there's no way Fox will run on a reasonable PDA in the near future.

Hmm. Maybe someday a Ruby VM will run on the Palm or something. Ahh,
wouldn't that be sweet?


Hal