Vassili's work on Hopscotch is a very interesting approach to eliminating modes in the browser.

http://bracha.org/hopscotch-wasdett.pdf 

-david

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:38 AM, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
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This is another illustration that the UI of Smalltalk browser is full of modes.

I would really like to see an IDE where we limit the number of modes.
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