+1 - Michelle
> On Sep 1, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > As is evident, we haven't been getting a lot of traction on the JS dev > front from new people, and as such, I am going to bring up an old > subject, rehashed a bit. > > Specifically, I would like to propose that we make a coffee branch of > PonyMail with a ReactDOM-like approach to handling DOM, making it > clearer and neater what goes on in the big ol' DOM tree, which is rather > messy right now (and I fear that's why people aren't trying to tackle > issues themselves). > > In my opinion, this will: > - Make the UI segments cleaner, more intuitive > - Make DOM handling much easier going forward > - Make things a tad faster > - Allow us to properly use view classes and have new views inherit > defaults from the original classes. > - Allow for a higher rate of commentary as the DOM kludges disappear > > To get things started, I'll be setting up the branch and testing a > complete migration, but what I naturally need is the community's > approval of making this the _default_ development process going forward. > > I'd like to think of this as PonyMail Mark 2, and it's my hope that > it'll be accepted by the community. I haven't pushed any volleys of code > just yet, as I haven't started, but I'll begin by adding some DOM and > API tools first, and then work my way towards the actual interface. > I suspect the API and backend will remain the same. > > This will be an experiment to start with, but hopefully one that bears > fruit :) > > So, thoughts, comments, etc (even a +1!) are welcome. > > With regards, > Daniel.
