At 9:01 PM -0400 2006-06-15, emf wrote:
> I'm especially interested in getting any feedback, either on the wiki or
> here, about any and all WebUI - or UI in general - ideas in people's
> heads.
Speaking only for myself, I think there should be three main design
goals:
1. KISS -- I sometimes have to do list administration and
moderation from my Treo 650, so anything that depends on
graphics, JavaScript, CSS, or anything fancy is really
bad
news. Stick to a pure text-only UI as much as possible,
and try doing some actual tests with various PDAs and
phones, as well as all common browsers (including
Safari)
on all common desktop platforms (including MacOS X).
This also means that the size of the pages should be
kept
as reasonably small as possible -- the smaller they are,
the faster they load.
Of course, the standard exemplars are Google and Yahoo!
IMO, we're doing pretty good in this area today, but I
would
hate to see all the current WebUI code get thrown out
and
replaced with a Web2.0 AJAX/.NET framework.
2. Functionality -- As much as possible, make it "just work"
out-of-the-box. We've managed to accumulate a lot of
cruft
in the FAQ Wizard because there are a whole host of
things
that list moderators and administrators want to do with
their
lists, and some of them are easy with the WebUI, and
some
are not -- while others simply aren't possible at all,
at
least not from the WebUI.
Ideally, I'd like to see everything in the FAQ Wizard
get
removed because it is no longer applicable. At the very
least, for anything that is related to the UI, there
should
not be any entries to go into any FAQ, because it "just
works".
3. Completeness -- diametrically opposed to #1 and #2 above,
anything that can be done from the command-line should
be
do-able from the WebUI. This includes things like
editing
posts in the archives, editing posts before approving
them,
etc....
It's going to be tough to balance #3 against #1 and #2.
There may be a lot of things that you would like to do
in this area that would require support in other parts
of
the code, and therefore you may not be able to do them.
But I would like to see a concerted effort made.
> While the SoC project is fairly constrained, I want to at least
> make the future easier.
Your work is very important to us.
I'm not sure you fully understand how important. Or how difficult. ;)
--
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Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
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