I too like the concept of using "very light weight widgets" for those web apps that don't need heavy duty widgets. But these widgets should still have a nice/standard appearance (e.g. windows 3.1 or window 95 look and feel). Functionality should also be standard.
-- Raymond Irving --- Doug Melvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay. Maybe this is why the lightest widgets should > be called widget_light.js > > What I want everyone to understand is that not every > user of the dynapi will be an advanced Javascript > programmer. Nor are we desiging this soley for our > use. > > We are, after all, trying to define the next > generation all-browser-all-platform javascript > library here. > > But in order to get any level of acceptance at all, > we have to remember the users. > > A _USER_ is not us. > A user has no intemate knowledge of the internal > workings of the dynapi. > Nor do they want to. > A user can have any level of compentance. > Or none at all. > A user has the statistcal attention span of _7 > seconds_ > when looking at something new and shiney. > > And where not just talking about people who find us > through google either. > On more than one occasion I have landed a contract > simply on the apperent strength of the DynAPI 2. > Not just that it's pretty and works, but that I > could train any of their code monkeys to maintain > the code I > would write for them. > > Now comes DynAPI 3 and those contracts I did not get > due to the api seeming 'slow' or 'heavy' now promise > to be a thing of the past. With tighter integration > of inline creation, a smoother events structure, and > ligher > acetecture this version actually has the portential > to take off, to allow us to do greater thing, to let > the _user_ > do greater things, but none of this will matter if > we forget to "remember the user" > > :-) > > Post Script: I am not saying more coplex widgets and > components are bad, only that we need to maintain a > base of simple widgets to allow for siple tasks to > be completed by simple users. > > Thus ends the official Doug Melvin Rant on Usability > for DynAPI 3.. Had to come sooner or later right? > I just figured sooner would be better. > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
