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Foil 19 SPW and Window Clutter

From Tango Futures: XML for Portals, Web-based Collaboration and Distance Education Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Currently TangoInteractive produces a very cluttered desktop as each capability is invoked as a separate window
2 We build Java and JavaScript window managers to help out but doesn't seem right ...
3 SPW will allow one design more coherent systems using either frames or windows as appropriate
4 For instance, for distance education, one could put chat room, audio-video conferencing controls and whiteboard as separate frames of a single window
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