Re: [9fans] Raw Input Driver

[Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>]

El 20/03/2009, a las 14:07, rogpeppe@gmail.com escribió:

> 2009/3/20 Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>:
>> in the slow-network situation the thing you're responding to on the  
>> display
>> might not be accurate (eg, feedback delayed) which low-level input  
>> merging
>> won't address.
>
> true, but that's something that's relatively easy for the user
> to adjust to - most actions have an easily perceived visual
> result, and if that hasn't happened, i won't initiate my
> next action.
>
> in fact it's a problem with any slow-responding UI,
> which is where nemo's point about splitting things up
> at a higher level comes in. and that's what (in an extremely
> clunky way) the AJAX thing is all about too.
>
> the problem with choosing a higher level of abstraction is that
> the input event generators can't in general be agnostic about
> what the mouse/keyboard/whatever are operating on,
> so you end up with a smart client or split application,
> which lack the same easy composability that you get
> from plan 9's remote devices.
>
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