Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Please don't improve the user interface, the reason I like it is that I
don't have to learn all new keystrokes and methods every 4-6 months.
The improve, is in all aspects, we don't intend to break your
experiences/learned habits there where possible. But don't fear I don't
see anyone working on *anything* substantial there at the moment anyway.
That's very good news, because it is great for doing simple pages which work for
the simple people who still run IR6 or (shudder) Mosaic. It's easy to use, text,
images and tables are fine for documentation and email.
But there have been lots of web additions/features/etc. added to the Web
Platform since Composer was first made, so it does need some updating to
stay relevant.
There have been lots of neat complex tools written to generate all that stuff,
too. They are the tools of professional web designers, communications
specialists, etc. I have two such in my family, and you would need a huge team
to do the tools they use. You also need to have a ton of browser sniffing,
because the composer we have generates code which works for Gecko, Chrome, and a
few others, while IE6 thru IE8 display it all wrong.
Let it remain irrelevant, SM lacks resources to do all the things desired in the
heavily used bits, and composer is useful as is, what it does it does well, IMHO.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have
taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010
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