Saturday, December 03, 2005

elective interfaces

I'm just about finished the guest interface. No command line, indeed there is nothing to type--you just click away with your mouse.

After that I'm thinking about having 3 more interfaces: basic, advanced and power, with a facility to change from one to another. (The default interface for a user being specified by a tag on the user's Drawer.)

The basic interface would still not have a command line. Rather, forms can be used for entering a topic name when, for example, creating a page. (From the basic interface, a user can create topics, destroy them or edit them.)

The advanced interface re-introduces the command line, but still with a reduced command set. With this interface a user will be able to work with tags and headers, but not with other classifiers.

The power interface then will be the old interface, but with a stripped down default display.

The fun part will be to structure the documentation to support the various interfaces, carefully leading the user from basics on to more advanced topics.

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