   From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@utopia.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995
23:00:58 -0400 Message-Id: <v02120d07ac111d4fbe60@[]> To: Peter
Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com> Cc: "Marc Salomon"
<marc@matahari.ckm.ucsf.edu>, www-talk@www10.w3.org,
rating@junction.net, uri@bunyip.com At 3:46 PM 6/21/95, Peter
Deutsch wrote: >is to render it.  This is a very limiting world
view. >We're moving towards a world where it wont just be humans
>using these things and we wont want to see just files. >Forcing
people to work through the GUI (selecting URLs to >fetch, for
example) is going to be way too limiting for >the long run.
This argument has been used against file systems for a long
time.  You really want a sea of objects, etc., etc..  Lots of
attempts have been and are being made in that direction - but
when it comes down to it, J. Random User has enough trouble with
file system abstractions, they tend to get lost if you take
those concrete metaphors away.  That's not to say that it can't
be done in a way that will work. But I'd be