From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2000-11-07T19:12:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6114] Re: What would a Ruby browser look like? -- It's Just a View!

People are already talking about using Tk to do this, or doing it as a WWW
page.  Please hold your horses! :-)  These are just "views".  No doubt the
Emacs enthusiasts among us would like a textual version tied in to Emacs.  
People using Braille displays won't be too impressed by graphics, and
people using Windows may not want a Command Line Interface.  There may
even be deafblind programmers accessing the system through Morse Code!  
Please let's think about what this will DO before we think about what it
will *look* like. :-)

Remember, a few years back if someone had said that people will try to
browse the web from a mobile phone, they would not have been taken
seriously, but WAP and WML are here, even if they are regarded as
"clunky" by some.

One of the ideas of XP is don't decide now what you can decide later.
Also concepts like "Accessibility" and "Universal Design" come to mind.

	Hugh  (stopping before his soap box collapses under him!)