Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:31:03 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Andrew Hannam" <hannama@fan.net.au> Cc: "FreeBSDSmall" <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Andrzej Bialecki" <abial@nask.pl> Subject: RE: WWW i/f Message-ID: <Version.32.19981006002405.00e4f7c0@pop.wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <000501bdf069$12346d60$0104010a@andrewh.famzon.com.au> References: <000401bdf065$da48a900$0104010a@andrewh.famzon.com.au>
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At 16:04 05-10-98 , Andrew Hannam wrote:
>[Opinion]
>WWW is just another GUI, although a cheap one from the server point of view.
>Like all GUI's you can design good and bad applications. The point with html
>is that by nature you tend to end up with bad interfaces unless you do the
>design work first.
True, well, ye can try some designs already, except the point is that when
ye are going to go for HTML 1.0, 2.x, 3.x, or 4,x compliance, the HTTPd
code gets enlarged by a factor 2 or something due to extra functionality.
The question we should ask is do we need every option available? Are there
tags available that might be benificial to the configuration?
Another lame question that's evading my eyes is, how are we going to write
the config? Does a simple POST do the trick?
>Who these days has time to do anything other than a quick and dirty
>implementation? Only the marketing people who see it like any other form of
>trend marketing. This explains the many bad interfaces we see.
>They are either bad from being "quick and dirty" or bad from being too
>glossy with limited functionality.
Any familiarity with 3Com's Hubs and Switches? They have a nice WWW
interface and useable too...
>Point is...
> design an interface properly in html and it should be as good as any other
>GUI implementation.
Care to disagree, I find CLI's too be much more enjoyable and better to
manipulate... WWW might be better in layout of data and their current
settings. Matter of preference?
>The same applies to command lines. If you design badly you get a bad result
>(hence the comments earlier in this group about how bad Cisco IOS is.
>Command line completion does a lot to "rescue" the useability of Cisco IOS).
What's so wrong about IOS? I still don't see it.
Hence I suggested the completion too, Andrej might have had the opinion
voiced on the list at some earlier time too, but I haven't found that
though =)
regards,
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl>
ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises
Network/Security Specialist
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