Re: Green-screen versus browser

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The same is true for your comptuer programs.  How the 
> screens look is absolutely vital. You should be putting 
> as much effort into how they look as you do into how they 
> work -- both are important!
>
> And that's a HUGE reason why green screen fails.  In 
> fact, the green screen paradigm is a big part of the 
> decline of the iSeries.  Nobody wants a system where 
> all/most of the programs are green screen.

And that's an area where most emulators fail far more 
miserably than any real terminal since, say, the 3180, and 
the inordinately popular RUMBA, at least in every release 
I've ever tried, is the butt-ugliest of them all.

<shameless plug> Our emulator uses an iconic, rather than 
WSF-style, status line, and always has. It gives one a 
completely free choice of any font on the client system, 
and always has (although it warns you if you choose a 
proportional one) And it gives one a choice between a 
terminal-look status line and a GUI-look one, and always 
has. And most recently, we've even (inspired by something 
I saw in a HATS demonstration) added the ability to put a 
background image behind it, and included several 
backgrounds in the JAR. </shameless plug>

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JHHL