- From: Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 13:54:29 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 6:49p 03/23/96, Samuel Rinnetmaki wrote:
>>3) <Bert writes: do we want to specify how long the pop-up stays on screen?
>>Until the mouse is released? But then you can't click in it any more.>
>>IMO This would only be possible if the content of the Pop-up is embedded in
>>the document as it would make for a very long click for people with slow
>>connections. And anyway the second point is totally right.
>
>And what about those of us without a mouse? And
>anyway, I donīt think this has nothing to do with
>HTML. It is up to the user agent how and how long
>to show a pop-up window.
Take a look at FoxPro for DOS (or FoxPro for SCO Unix, a.k.a. Xenix) to see
how amazingly well a character-based environment can mimic a GUI
environment. If you can't find a copy, ask Microsoft for a demo disk. If
you've never seen it before, it will be quite enlightening! Grow boxes,
close boxes, zoom boxes, horizontal and vertical scrollbars, popup menus,
pulldown menus, mouse-operated hypertext help, etc. Doesn't require a
mouse, but naturally a mouse make life much easier! Everyone should have
one. ;)
-Walter
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Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript,
Mountain View, CA ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML
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Received on Sunday, 24 March 1996 16:54:34 UTC