> well, i would agree to that... as long as we can agree that "looks" > specifically > visual consistency is important for a ui. > Looks and visual consistency are certainly important, but I will argue that usability trumps both. Not that you can't get all of those with dojo or ext, but I prefer to work in dojo as I said. Ext is not something I'm interested in.
> > I am genuinely interested in your opinion and examples, though, because > > I've seen some really good dojo-based UI's. > > I do think that the default L&F of dojo maybe isn't the best, but I'm > certain > > we wouldn't have to live with that. > well, maybe i just have only seen the wrong dojo ui's so far... maybe > you could point me to a couple of good examples or themes that you > think work with from a visual perspective. > Well, I did ask first about this great-looking ext-based JCR explorer ;-) > and i guess visual consistency comes amongst other things from about > a zillion small css settings that i am personally not prepared to put in > my time to fix them in dojo. i know that for myself, that i would then > probably live with ugly interface and hate it every time i use it ;) > (jokingly i would compare it to using fvwm on linux) > I would argue your assertion that changing css settings "fixes" dojo because I don't view dojo as "broken" in the first place. It may not be pleasing to you, but customizing css is just something that is necessary to get a unique L&F and dojo is very css-aware, so that makes it easy. What maybe isn't so easy are the graphical arts assets that you need to make it so. I'm not sure I have the talent in that area, but I do have a couple of resources I can potentially pull from. > regards, > david
