Sounds like a job for our summer intern!
if we had one...
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:53 PM, David Temkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> To clean these things up:
>
> 1. The directories containing the components and demos/examples: remove the
> SWFs, promote the PNGs from the autoPng folder one level up;
> 2. The LZX source for the components and demos/examples; explicitly use the
> .png files in resource declarations instead of the current .swfs
>
> Or it might be easier to do some/all of this manually.
>
> - D.
>
>
> On May 28, 2008, at 3:00 PM, P T Withington wrote:
>
> Not sure what you mean by 'a script to clean things up'?
>>
>> On 2008-05-28, at 15:58 EDT, David Temkin wrote:
>>
>> The PNGs that have been autogenerated are good, both in terms of
>>> appearance and in terms of file size. I don't think we need to add a manual
>>> task here; a script to clean things up would be great.
>>>
>>> Next step for a designer would be to create a new skin for the components
>>> as a whole. But that's a non-trivial task.
>>>
>>> - D.
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 27, 2008, at 10:48 AM, P T Withington wrote:
>>>
>>> This seems like a fine idea to me, but shouldn't we actually get some
>>>> designer resources to create optimal .png's, rather than rely on the
>>>> auto-generated ones?
>>>>
>>>> And then we just need to prioritize this w.r.t. everything else that is
>>>> going on...
>>>>
>>>> On 2008-05-23, at 15:33 EDT, David Temkin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is it time to remove the SWF resources altogether from the components
>>>>> and the non-SWF specific sample apps, and move the contents of the autoPng
>>>>> directories up a level?
>>>>>
>>>>> The SWFs add confusion both to the source code ("I see SWF resources --
>>>>> how could that work in DHTML?") and in the way the directories are laid
>>>>> out.
>>>>> And the autoPng mechanism is magic.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think there's a benefit in keeping the SWFs around. While SWFs
>>>>> in some cases may be smaller and/or may stretch better, the confusion and
>>>>> difference between runtimes outweigh the benefits.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> - D.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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