Re: [freenet-dev] SplitFileRequestServlet

[Michael Wiktowy]

It is unbelieveable how much traffic this topic has generated all centered around:

1) Ian vs. Matthew: Who is the most arrogant? Does anyone really give a rat's ass? Nope. Take it to the playground please and try to be at least cordial to all the subscribers and to each other. If we haven't already been chased off my Oskar's razor sharp dismissals, Matthew's are kind of ticklish

2) The colour scheme of the progress bars: Good grief! Isn't this a little like choosing the colours to paint Freenet's coffin. How about keeping focus on the tougher goals like making requests 100% reliable for popular content. This *is* an achieveable goal and there have been great strides towards it but now is not the time to get distracted by pretty colours ... however tempting it might be due to that problem's trival nature (vs. the grand headache of achieving the aforementioned goal).

The default splitfile status page should have three elements and three elements exactly:
- The most recent splitfiles downloaded list
- Their status as a percentage number (blocks downloaded/total blocks needed) right beside each or "failed"
- A button to get more details

That is all a newb needs/wants and under the shiny red button, the geek can see a bountiful cornucopia of dazzling colours in the form of spinning wheels, 3D bar graphs and whatever else everyone will ignore if Freenet is retrieveing stuff properly.

Following the KISS principle is almost always a good idea.

Keep your eye on the ball. I am pretty sure that most people who donated to the project (time or money) were not hiring Matthew to be a interior decorator.

--
Mike


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