My mechanic told me that the Audi problem was mainly a UI issue--the brake and gas pedals were too close together and the brake pedal was too low so if you mashed both pedals together you'd accelerate. The fix was to add a couple inches to the brake pedal so if you pressed both the car would stay stopped.
wow, an article about the future of programming language where a search for "interface" and "template" fails. my conclusion: worthless article. coding an implementation of an interface on a platform is the easy part or computer science. coming up with the interfaces and designing the platforms is the real work. well engineered interfaces means hooking code together (in different languages, running on different platforms, etc.) is easier and in this respect real-world computer science is still in the dark ages.
Inspired by work on gesture-based marking menus (Callahan et al 1988), in 2001 we designed, implemented and evaluated a gesture-based mechanism for issuing the Back and Forward commands. Similar features were simultaneously released in the Opera 4 commercial web browser, and slightly later by the Mozilla Optimoz project 5. To our knowledge, neither of these commercial implementations has been formally evaluated.
Don't bother reading the paper unless you like to talk about UI instead of experience it and like to hear about the glory of Fitt's Law. Play with Opera or Optimoz.
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My mechanic told me that the Audi problem was mainly a UI issue--the brake and gas pedals were too close together and the brake pedal was too low so if you mashed both pedals together you'd accelerate. The fix was to add a couple inches to the brake pedal so if you pressed both the car would stay stopped.
that i read the other replies to this "informative" post in firefox with the sidebar overlapping them.
wow, an article about the future of programming language where a search for "interface" and "template" fails. my conclusion: worthless article. coding an implementation of an interface on a platform is the easy part or computer science. coming up with the interfaces and designing the platforms is the real work. well engineered interfaces means hooking code together (in different languages, running on different platforms, etc.) is easier and in this respect real-world computer science is still in the dark ages.