Re: theory and practice: ying and yang
From: Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:25:40 -0400
Message-Id: <7vu5n2-g92.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>
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> I dont think I have used the term "one true UI", or even "UI".
> Can you provide a page reference somewhere, as I dont
> quite follow. I have used the term User Interface and also
> the term OI - Organisational Intelligence (defn = sum(data)+
> sum(source code)), but not UI.
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Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:25:40 -0400
Message-Id: <7vu5n2-g92.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>
mountain man wrote:
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>> >> You then proceed to the claim that the UI can "ride" the table structures >> and provide complete workability. That at least is how I term that kind >> of >> UI, which our system also implements. In this system, the menu lists >> tables. You work on data in tables, and on the detail screen for each >> table are hyperlinks to drill down (or up) to child (or parent) tables, >> with appropriate intelligence making the results of those drill down/ups >> useful to the user. >> >> BUT, you cannot then conclude that this is the "One true UI".
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> I dont think I have used the term "one true UI", or even "UI".
> Can you provide a page reference somewhere, as I dont
> quite follow. I have used the term User Interface and also
> the term OI - Organisational Intelligence (defn = sum(data)+
> sum(source code)), but not UI.
>
>
I took this inference from your own site, this page in particular:
http://www.mountainman.com.au/software/southwind/
Where all of the links I looked at showed tabular information. The term
"one true UI" is definitely my own characterization of what I thought you
So perhaps I should fall back to that question: Once the DB is implementing all rules, what is the role of the other layers?
-- Kenneth Downs Secure Data Software, Inc. (Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)Received on Fri Jun 03 2005 - 14:25:40 CEST