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That has nothing to do with the interface being a terminal, but with the primary input method being a keyboard instead of a pointing device. You could get the
by mrighele 2y ago
That has nothing to do with the interface being a terminal, but with the primary input method being a keyboard instead of a pointing device.
You could get the same result with a graphical interface, as long as you provide proper keyboard based navigation. The web browser provide all the capabilities that you need for that.
The nice part of a text based ui is that you have a simpler device to use for rendering, so things like layout is easier, as long as you remain in the domain of what the device allows for.
- Vegenoid 2y agoAgreed that a GUI can be just as keyboard-friendly as a good TUI, but it would seem natural that restricting things to a grid of characters encourages keyboard interaction, whereas allowing arbitrary placement of elements at the pixel level encourages mouse interaction.
- ranger_danger 2y agoYes, but given the choice, I think most people would opt for the less-efficient mouse navigation on a web page, even if there were no actual upsides to doing it that way. If a business forced a keyboard-only input method, then that might help to raise the efficiency of everyone more equally.