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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:54:43 GMT" ctSaves="10" flPreview="false" id="2011.10.08.1352" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="1352" text="UI unification" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/08/uiStandards.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.44" versionServer="0.44" whenLastSave="Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:59:24 GMT">
			<outline created="Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:52:16 GMT" pgfnum="9992" text="A very simple thought, not of broad interest. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:52:25 GMT" pgfnum="9993" text="&lt;img class=&quot;storyImage&quot; src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/10/08/cowgirl.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;244&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named cowgirl.jpg&quot;&gt;I use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2011/09/06/twittersBootstrapToolkit.html&quot;&gt;Bootstrap Toolkit&lt;/a&gt; for my apps now. For example, it's in the occupyweb.org project. Anyway, now that I use Bootstrap, I breeze through the UI of Twitter. I assume it's also using Bootstrap. If not, it's using something very much like it."></outline>
			<outline created="Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:53:14 GMT" pgfnum="9994" text="This is a D'oh moment. It was the thing that was wonderful about the Mac too, back in the mid-80s. A normal person could use five or ten apps, where on the IBM PC, the other burgeoning platform of the day, people were sticking with one. Having a unified UI meant people could do more with computers. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:54:01 GMT" pgfnum="9995" text="We will see the same effect, I believe, on the web, when the user interfaces start unifying. Bootstrap is an important step in that process. It may actually &lt;i&gt;become&lt;/i&gt; the unification."></outline>
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