On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:12:56PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> While on the subject, I couldn't disagree more with your choice to make
> the gateway page an infolet. The gateway concerns users, the infolets
> concern beta testers - most users should never have to see (or even run,
> though if it isn't on it's own server that hardly matters) that servlet.

Apart from a couple of minor gripes (unrelated to your criticism),
*every single* user has expressed satisfaction with the new interface.

The idea here is to have a single extensible system which handles 
web-based user-interaction.  This has the advantages that:

1) The users get a consistent (and pleasing) interface to all GUI 
   functionality
2) Developers have a standard framework within which they can plug-in 
   new UI components

Of course, things aren't currently perfect.  The original infolet
structure was used for diagnostic purposes, and so most of the infolets
are somewhat arcane. In time, people will more useful Infolets (such as
something which monitors insert progress etc), and we can move thes
Infolets under an "advanced" section, or get rid of them completely.

Ian.

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Ian Clarke                                        ian at freenetproject.org
Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project    http://freenetproject.org/
Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc.           http://www.uprizer.com/
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