Z
Zoubidoo
Many applications require a high-speed interface such as supermarket
checkouts, busy points of sale, doctors' surgeries etc. The problem
with graphical interfaces is that they are too slow for this kind of
environment. Imagine a web interface at the supermarket checkout -
just not viable.
Would it be possible to build a text-based interface *within* a normal
browser window - like curses? Keypresses would be interpreted by
javascript and cause changes in a curses box. I think there has
already been some work on connecting javascript and curses
http://spiderape.sourceforge.net/plugins/ncurses/ but is a curses
style interface really possible?
A text-based interface would allow all those point-of-sale
applications to become web-applications.
Cheers,
Z.
checkouts, busy points of sale, doctors' surgeries etc. The problem
with graphical interfaces is that they are too slow for this kind of
environment. Imagine a web interface at the supermarket checkout -
just not viable.
Would it be possible to build a text-based interface *within* a normal
browser window - like curses? Keypresses would be interpreted by
javascript and cause changes in a curses box. I think there has
already been some work on connecting javascript and curses
http://spiderape.sourceforge.net/plugins/ncurses/ but is a curses
style interface really possible?
A text-based interface would allow all those point-of-sale
applications to become web-applications.
Cheers,
Z.