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From: "Laszlo Teglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> If you want you can be in charge of the css. All I ask is that you keep my
> class definitions. Feel free to change anything inside the curly brackets.
> Also try to stick to the browser friendly color palate.
Ok, we'll see how that turns out, I like your flexible approach though.

> But as of yesterday, one fundamental issue may change the structure of the
> documents. "To Widget, Or Not To Widget" That is the question. It seems
that
> most of you are eager to get rid of the widgets as part of the official
> distro, while others want to keep them for testing purposes, still others
> want to keep them and expand on them as fundamental building blocks. If we
> will scrap the widgets, there is no point in documenting them. And if all
of
> you are just going to sit around and wait for Dan to release his new set
of
> widgets, than also there is no point in documenting our current widget
set.
> Because our own widgets will never be maintained after Dan's release. It
is
> not fair to expect one person to do all the work, and I can see why Dan
> would want to charge for it. I just don't see how Dan will protect his
hard
> work, by creating generic widgets that could look very similar to others
who
> had the same idea, but that is for Dan to worry about. We as a community
> need to decide:
>
> Do we want widgets with our distro???

Well, yes, the current modest widgets should be kept, and improved upon as
needed, so we can keep testing our code is working as it should, and as an
example to others.
The reason they have never been changed is, I got the impression they were
"hands-off". Any changes ever suggested on the list, like extra
functionality for imageanim, replacements for loadpanel, or new widgets,
were always skill-fully ignored, so I got the impression that these widgets
were Dan's work, and shouldn't be messed with.
Now that Dan clearly stated that he had expected the widgets to have been
overhauled long ago, I think that has been cleared up, and we can start to
look at which widgets are in there, which we need, and what's wrong with the
ones we have.

I would recommend that the DynAPI widgets be real simple - more
building-blocks than anything else, but that they work well, in all
browsers.
I would suggest leaving things like treevieuws, and lists for the
widget-packs, and sticking with loadpanels, scrollpanes, buttons,
image-loader, scrollbar etc.
Trying to keep the widgets light-weight, and cross-browser.

Cheers,
Richard.




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