12-12-2019, 07:36 AM
I agree with most of that, to some extent at least. Then again the Openmokos could do all the basics you're talking about on a significantly less powerful processor than we'll have in the Pinephone.
I suspect that if markdown had been available at the time html started invading email things might have gone differently, but we are where we are. Still you have the option to default to plain-text views as I do. The html renderer will still be present in library form for the web browser.
If your data needs are trivial CSV may be suitable, but before long something like sqlite will become more efficient.
Avatars and bubbles aren't necessary for SMS, but they don't use much resource and they provide the size and separation required for finger-sized touch interfaces. This was less necessary on the Psion and Openmoko because the resistive touchscreens offered better touch precision. Enlightenment had settings to allow things to scale accordingly so that in mouse-and-keyboard mode you didn't get the extra space that was added for fat-finger mode, or something along those lines.
The weather app needs to be that big to include the data-slurping and advertising libraries, but they still don't show the data that would actually be useful, like showing rain will be patchy but torrential.
I suspect that if markdown had been available at the time html started invading email things might have gone differently, but we are where we are. Still you have the option to default to plain-text views as I do. The html renderer will still be present in library form for the web browser.
If your data needs are trivial CSV may be suitable, but before long something like sqlite will become more efficient.
Avatars and bubbles aren't necessary for SMS, but they don't use much resource and they provide the size and separation required for finger-sized touch interfaces. This was less necessary on the Psion and Openmoko because the resistive touchscreens offered better touch precision. Enlightenment had settings to allow things to scale accordingly so that in mouse-and-keyboard mode you didn't get the extra space that was added for fat-finger mode, or something along those lines.
The weather app needs to be that big to include the data-slurping and advertising libraries, but they still don't show the data that would actually be useful, like showing rain will be patchy but torrential.