How about opening a second project - DynAPI Widgets - like many other projects have when they become large and well established? Just a thought though...
BTW I'm working on my Comic Creation community for real now (using PostNuke CMS/Weblog) and will probably be updating and working out some new widgets for my ccreation widget pack. And it as well as the site its on are so far intended to be totallly free for download and use as well as ad-free :P The focus for my widget pack stands; what I need and what I'll find useful is what I'll build/include. When my site is up it will be available from there. Probably in the begining of next year... cya Henrik V�glin [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:49 PM Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] Dan's widgets (was DynAPI Documents - Structural Candidate 1) > Hi, > Dan, great news that you're putting a commercial widget-pack on the market, > and nice that it's free for personal use. It's this kind of approach that > will allow dynAPI to be used by people who are less acquainted with the > inner-workings of DynAPI. > > Only problem I see, is how to avoid discussions about replicated > functionality in free widgets, for instance, I have been using > outline-dragging with skin-windows for almost a year now in my own work, but > because it was intranet-based, and didn't need to be cross-browser, I never > released any of the widgets (no time either), so if I now released a > skinwindow with outline-dragging, it would look like I had copied this idea > from Dan's widgets. (I actually copied it from windows) > So Dan, how do you see this working out? what happens if your widget-pack > contains some nice ideas (design or code-wise) that are taken up in free > widgets afterwards? (purposely or accidentally ). > Also, are there no copyright issues when replicating the windows 98/XP > interface? > > I think we still need basic building-block widgets with the dynAPI release, > mostly for testing the code with, and aside from that it would be great if > other people could build widget-packs, using the architecture of their > choice, and in separate branches in the CVS (without modifying the core > dynAPI files). > > I'd say, make a plan, do the ground-work, and then contact Jordi about > opening a new CVS branch. > > Cheers, Richard. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
