Sounds an awful lot like the teachings of Jef Raskin. I read The Humane Interface years ago and I seem to remember him talking about modeless interfaces. Defini

Sounds an awful lot like the teachings of Jef Raskin. I read The Humane Interface years ago and I seem to remember him talking about modeless interfaces. Definitely worth a read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface