I think most ui is borken by design possibly for perpetual income reasons. HyperCard, vb, and other easy to use and accessible builders are dead even though this what people really want. If I want a blue menu bar, I need to code markup!?!, but to stop me from creating blue menu bars, today I am forbidden from having a menu bar anyways. Crazy ideas and creatively built prototypes seem to have no place in the private ManagerFactoryClass.

One objection was that the text scrolling was line by line and Steve said “Can’t this be smooth?”. In a few seconds Dan made the change. Another more interesting objection was to the complementation of the text that was used (as today) to indicate a selection. Steve said “Can’t that be an outline?”. Standing in the back of the room, I held my breath a bit (this seemed hard to fix on the fly). But again, Dan Ingalls instantly saw a very clever way to do this (by selecting the text as usual, then doing this again with the selection displaced by a few pixels — this left a dark outline around the selection and made the interior clear).