http://www.tunes.org/Interfaces/uilinks.html

[Tijs van Bakel]

Hi,

Regarding  http://www.tunes.org/Interfaces/uilinks.html:

Broken links:

* All the [MIA] links would better be removed, since they serve no
  purpose but to distract.

* The link to `Pad Interface: a system where zooming in, to an
  arbitrary depth, is key' (http://www.cs.unm.edu/pad++/begin.html) is
  broken

* The link to `Effective Visual Communication for GUIs: decent stuff
  on typography, symbols, color'
  (http://cs.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/cs563/talks/smartin/int_design.html)
  is broken.

* Isys Information Architects Inc. has a very insightful page about
  graphical user interfaces. (http://www.iarchitect.com/) is broken.

Suggestions:

* The `FreeType free renderer for TrueType fonts' link points to an
  ftp site, but may better point to http://www.freetype.org/

* A large list of downloadable user interfaces is available from
  http://www.atai.org/guitool/ (it should have been accesible from
  http://www.theoffice.net/guitool/ according to the page but it is
  not)

* While searching for a gui for Common Lisp i found Garnet
  (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/garnet/www/garnet-home.html),
  which is no longer being supported. Research is now aimed towards
  Amulet, implemented in C++
  (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/amulet/www/amulet-home.html)
  quoting their `overview' webpage:

  "More than just another free virtual toolkit, Amulet includes many
   features specifically designed to make the creation of
   highly-interactive, graphical, direct manipulation user interfaces
   significantly easier, including a prototype-instance object model,
   constraints, high-level input handling including automatic undo,
   built-in support for animation and gesture-recognition, and a full
   set of widgets."

* Another big list with links to "User Interface Software Tools" is
  available from:
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bam/www/toolnames.html
  This page has a few interesting links, like these:

  `UIST: User Interface Software and Technology Symposium.'
  (http://www.acm.org/uist/)

  `Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list about Portable GUI
  Development Kits.'
  (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/portable-GUI-software/)

On a sidenote, I liked the critique as seen on the Languages-review
page. Would it be possible to have something alike on the User
interfaces page? Some sort of forum or wikiwikiweb system may prove
useful. If something like this is already planned, just ignore me. :)

-- 
Tijs van Bakel, <smoke@casema.net>