<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Clickability is irrelevant. An API is an APPLICATION programming interface. It's about enabling applications to interact with it.<div><br></div><div>-George<br><div><br><div><div>On Oct 26, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Jorge Williams wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div>On Oct 26, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Bryan Taylor wrote:</div>
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<div>But PDFs and excel spreadsheets are precisely why you want variants!</div>
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<div>"Here's my usage stats for 2009...</div>
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<div>You mean to tell me that I can't send that out as an e-mail? Instead I have to say</div>
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<div>"Please run this command to see my usage stats for 2009</div>
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<div>That seems silly to me, we're missing an important feature, the ability to click.</div>
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