At 01:54 PM 11/7/2005 -0800, Alec Flett wrote:
Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
Alec, do you have objections to the mechanism beyond the issue of two
different patterns? If so, can you elaborate?
The mechanism, as it was described to me, allows you to annotate a 'kind'
item with a reference to a particular block, allowing for a
"ViewableKind". This means I can say, create an AmazonItem kind, and
annotate it with a reference to an AmazonDetailView
This seems incredibly broken to me:
1) establishing a link from the low level datamodel right up to the
highlevel model for the UI. I think it breaks the whole model of the UI as
one of many ways of viewing a set of data. The Kind should not decide
which UI it will be displayed with and we should not encourage this notion.
Just an FYI - this is exactly the same thing that we would be doing by
using annotations to record collection colors - and it works in precisely
the same way. So I'm curious why you like the one idea but not the other
in this context.
My question is entirely independent of the discussion at hand; I want to
learn more about how people perceive the annotations concept, whether they
perceive it as good or bad. The fact that you seem to see it as both
simultaneously makes you an especially good person for me to learn
something interesting from. :)
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