Excellent suggestions both. Just updated the docs. Cheers, Dan
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Markus Weimar <[email protected]> wrote: > Concerning "commands". > > http://www.boltwire.com/index.php?p=docs.handbook > > 1) "Functions: Special commands used to produce dynamic content > automatically." > > "commands" is a glossary link here. If you read the glossary entry for > "command" you learn that they are "special form fields". Did we talk about > functions or commands or forms or special functions in forms? I am almost > certain this confused me when reading it the first, second and third time. > > Better: "Functions perform specific tasks and are used to produce dynamic > content" > > No confusion with commands anymore. > > 2) "Commands: Forms processing capabilities you can access for powerful > interactive effects." > > Here, I think the glossary entry is much less abstract and a better one-liner > to explain commands: > > "These are special form fields that trigger interactive effects in BoltWire." > > Markus > > On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:29 AM, The Editor wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Markus Weimar >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Blueprints! What a metaphor! And no food connotations... This is excellent! >>> It does cleverly position ABOVE the naming mess of plugins, extensions and >>> add-ons, solutions, snippets... >> >> Bingo, we may be on to something! >> >>>>> One thought concerning color. I think this should be the last benchmark >>>>> to use. Colorful or colorless: what counts are users that understand what >>>>> the farmers talk about and that quickly. >>>> >>>> Yes, but what about entertainment value? Even programmers need a >>>> chuckle now and then--as long as it doesn't get in the way of meaning, >>>> of course. >>> >>> I can only speak for myself. The farm metaphor was a one-time chuckle. >>> Seeing how terribly complex things can be achieved with BoltWire with >>> amazing ease and elegance lets me chuckle all the time. >> >> Glad BoltWire can do that! It makes me want to pull my hair out some >> times. Like right now! >> >>> Maybe it is because I am not an English native speaker but I never >>> understood how one could talk of skins and themes. Do you create a new >>> theme when you change five colors? Do colors really make a "theme" in the >>> common meaning? Does bigger line spacing make a theme? Does it need images? >>> >>> Skins? In my world, skins cover stuff. Does the skin cover your web page? >>> Is it transparent? And is the text tattooed? >>> >>> But colors, line spacing, images and whatever have one thing in common: >>> They change the look. >> >> No you are perfectly right. Looks is much more semantic than skins or >> themes and for the exact reasons you give. But themes and skins are >> more common terms. I do like "looks" however and wouldn't mind doing >> something just a bit out of the ordinary... :) >> >>> Right on. BoltWire is so close to intelligent engineering, building and >>> construction that the primary sector metaphor does not fit. Maybe it would >>> fit if everybody had a realistic picture of today's farming processes in >>> their head. But we don't. We think of green pastures, mooing cows and happy >>> kids playing in the dirt. >> >> Paradigm shift for me, Markus! Thank you... >> >>> Good thread! :) >> >> Agreed. We will definitely move this direction. 4.xx will be a good >> time to give BoltWire a bit of a structural facelift. Much appreciated >> your insight and challenge. >> >> Cheers, >> Dan >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BoltWire" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BoltWire" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en.
