I think so, too. btw. I expect that no jabber developers will spend time in managing such a webpage as they will better invest more time in their components&clients. Therefor such a page would rather depend on some enthusiastic users... And such a user can not be motivated by a decission of the jabber council or something.
But where to find them? How to motivate them? Even if it is only blah blah, the best looking and best organized *private* webpages are often found under the game webpages. Maybe we can motivate some Ultima Online Shard or Quake admin/user/clanmember to do such a thing... edrin On 4 Oct 2004 at 22:12, Julian Missig wrote: > On 4 Oct 2004, at 18:46, Mikael Hallendal wrote: > > > Sounds a bit over the top to try to guess what client would be best > > depending on what other IM clients the user has used. And also, imho > > the usability of ICQ sucks, and presenting the user with something > > much easier to use might be a better drive then presenting him with > > something very similar. > > I never said I thought ICQ was good, but regardless of how "easy" > something is to use, presenting the user with something most similar to > what they're used to will always be less disruptive for them than > presenting them with something completely different. > > Sure I may not agree with ICQ's UI or Psi's UI, but ICQ users will > still find Psi easier to use than something like Trillian or > Gossip--just because it's similar. I was just using Psi/ICQ as an > example because I feel that the Psi/ICQ interface deviates from the > norm quite a bit. Kind of like WinJab (or Exodus with one-window style) > would be very very odd to an ICQ or AIM user trying to use it like they > used ICQ or AIM. > > I just think that since we already /have/ all these clients mimicking > different kinds of UI, we might as well point people in the direction > they'd be most comfortable with. > > Yes, it's odd logic, but it's logic that most of my sources of HCI > education seem to agree with. It's the same reason that companies try > to switch away from Lotus Notes but fail. Unfortunately you can't fight > all UI battles at the same time. > > And yeah, guessing based on info like that is over-the-top, but it was > just an idea. Something that in my perfect world an end-user Jabber > site could do. > > Julian > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
