CompuServe Messages

I'm glad you're not totally against standards. I agree with you that too restrictive standards can stifle development of new ideas. However, I believe that a consistent user interface is good not only for novice users, but also for experienced users, even hacker types too. A particular task should be accomplished in the same way, no matter what program you are using. For example, I would not use an editor that doesn't allow me to use the mouse to position the cursor. That's an example of a standard. I think there is only so much you can do with file requesters. All I need is a list of files I can scroll through and be able to select a file via double click of the button. I believe that too much time is being wasted on that one thing. Instead of working on file requesters, someone should come up with a nice library of text handling routines (like the one on the MAC) so that handling text would be easier and consistant for developers and users. Yeah, it would be nice to have file requester that can be configured by the user, completely independent of the program, but that's overkill. Noone will buy and AMiga because it has fancy file requesters. People should buy it because it's the only machine that can do _______ (fill in the blank here – I don't know what such a product can be).