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16374: Re: [MUD-Dev] A new MUD-standard
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From: "Ben Chambers" <bjchambers@phoenixdsl.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:37:49 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Littlejohn" <darius@bofh.net.au>
To: <mud-dev@kanga.nu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] A new MUD-standard
> >>> "Ben Chambers" wrote
>> messages, for example the server tells the client that it should
>> have four windows, a list, a scrolling box, a coordinate display
>> (for maps) and a stat box, then sends messages to these you would
>> have a very
> What about blind players? What about people on palm pilots, or WAP
> phones? No point in making a "new mud standard" unless you address
> usability issues such as this - otherwise, you're building yet
> another customised client for your mud, not a standard way for all
> muds and clients to chat.
True, but how necessary is it to support all of these? I am saying
design it as a way for allowing more support for organized display.
Clients can be written for palms. I don't know about WAP. And, blind
players could still be able to the text box, so they could tell the
system to forget about the map and stuff.
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