Double Click - open browser. And more

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 1/13/06 7:09 AM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban.com> wrote:

> I'd like to propose that there's possibly a more useful presentation scheme
> to consider.  That scheme would look a lot more like the way "programming"
> is done in a stacked series of visual code blocks in QuicKeys and now in
> Apple's new Automator tool.

> Instead of coding blocks, you'd have table snippets.

> Thus you could keep stacking more and more panes or table blocks
> in the window, and scroll among them.  If you wanted to see a few more rows
> in a given table you could make that block a bit taller by moving a window
> splitter.  But it would be a window splitter in a tall, virtually infinite,
> scrollable window.   You could also scroll a table within the table block,
> just as you can now within the upper or lower pane.

I think I see what you mean.
Such behavior did have old Mac-OS only OO db Phyla.

> The result would be that you could navigate as far as you like, forward,
> backward, in loops if you wanted to through the table relations until you
> tracked down what it was you wanted to see.

> 
> Now here's the interesting part.  Stacking more and more blocks at the
> bottom of this infinitely scrollable window allows you to navigate "forward"
> down whatever path you should decide to wander, and then to either review
> your path by scrolling up, or indeed back up along the path by deleting
> table blocks you have visited.  HOWEVER... what's to prevent you from
> starting at the top of the window and choosing to explore a "backward" path
> by stacking new blocks at the head of the list allowing you navigate along a
> completely different path?  The only thing I can think of preventing this is
> fear that you'd possibly be doing something non-intuitive that nobody else
> has ever provided in an interface before.  But Valentina can be the first!
> 
> You could of course at any time always open up yet another window.  But now
> instead of having to open possibly a dozen windows to see a whole picture,
> you might get by with just opening two or three that had 3 to five blocks
> each.  This is a vertical equivalent of the horizontal tabbed interface that
> browsers like Safari and RB 2005 now use.
> 
> That make any sense?
> What ya' think?

Hard to implement.

And this require not Table-kind data browser, but totally own - draw - kind
of browser... 

This can exists as another data browser I think


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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