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Re: 12V train early 70th
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Date: 
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:48:35 GMT
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<snipped workarounds for Pause Trains overview problem>

Todd Lehman wrote:

> Joshua,
> 
> Those all sound great -- but hold those thoughts -- time is best spent
> working toward the new interface rather than improving the old interface in
> ways that the new one will cover anyway.

<snip>

> So although incremental changes do add value, they ultimately delay the
> "real" interface just that much more each time.  If you wanna hack some code
> and write some thresholding stuff that makes searching for trains nicer, we
> can talk about that, but even there, I'd probably rather encourage you
> toward design prototyping on the future interface and not toward improving
> the existing one.

Hey, I'm just trying to keep "Uncle Lare" happy.  :-)

I can wait for the real thing, but can other folks?

I _would_ like to see to Product Line and Theme names incorporated into
a generic search somehow, as I think it's a good idea, but if you feel
that your time is better spent elsewhere then by all means spend it
there.  <g>

-- joshua



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  Re: 12V train early 70th
 
(...) Yeah, that's no fun, is it. I think what ought to happen when you type "trains" into a top-level search box is that you get back a number of train categories (one encapsulating all, and then one for each of 9v, 4.5v, 12v, and DUPLO trains, (...) (28 years ago, 28-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.admin.database)

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