James Robertson wrote: > -- the not quite "standard" widgets in VisualWorks make him think > -- the "all in one windows" thing in Pharo and Squeak make him think I don't think these are the major issues these days. VW's widgets are close to standard widgets these days, and most other apps' widgets diverge from the standards anyway. Squeak will suffer far more, as its look is further from the standard (last time I looked). Most IDEs are very much "all in one window", so I think VW suffers more there. The single window of Pharo and Squeak feels odd to a VW user, not to a normal person :-). Of course Pharo and Squeak could do more to have a single big IDE window with fixed panes, rather than the multiple floating windows-within-a-window that they had last time I looked. Then again, the CodeBubbles demo has got people excited, and that's pretty close to a Smalltalk "multiple browser windows" model. http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm Steve