stinkingpig Wrote: > .... > > > > > Does anyone know if there have ever been any SlimDevices plans to > make > > a push for a more professional and modern interface? For me, the web > > interface is one of the worst things about the Squeezebox and I feel > it > > lets down the hardware quite badly... (but as I almost always use > use > > the remote I can live with it). > > > .... > > There's a lot of discussion about improvements in 6.5, particularly > the > Nokia770 skin and a move to CSS throughout. > >
to expand on the Nokia770 skin, which I'm developing-- The skin, which is being introduced in 6.5, uses lots of AJAX to make the UI more like a stateful application and less like a click-and-wait traditional browser app. While I developed this for the Nokia 770 internet tablet, it works wonderfully in Firefox or Opera on a PC (in fact, quite a bit nicer than on the 770 itself). If you find the Slim UI to be lacking, I'd really recommend you give the latest 6.5 and Nokia770 a try and see what you think. It's not perfect (yet), but it's an improvement. I'm also hoping someone takes the ball and develops other skins in this way--AJAX really opens the door to enhance the usability of the UI. I'm not sure what he's doing with it, but KDF has been building AJAX support into parts of the Fishbone skin as well. The "please build a better GUI interface" thing comes up a ton in the slim forums. Once you consider all of the OS's Slim has (thankfully) decided to support, this is not a simple issue. The browser has always promised to be the common GUI ground between OS's, but the traditional 'click, wait, full page refresh' CGI model doesn't work well for an app that needs a really immediate response--an app like Slimserver. That's where AJAX can help, in that the user request gets fired off to the server in the background and returns interface control to the user immediately. As for the ff/rew thing, I actually removed that functionality from the skin because I didn't think it was useful (sorry). But slimserver *can* do it from the UI. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24096 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
