To get a windows look and feel would require images. The whole reason I build the light one is that someone complained about the use of images.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond Irving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Light widgets. (or "remember the user!") > > 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]/ > ------------------------------------------------------- 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]/