Brian pointed out some important tradeoffs: On Apr 11, 2009, at 18:22 PM, Brian Warner wrote:
> I'd like to lobby for including this sort of functionality in the > webapi, instead of focussing on a GUI toolkit, since that would: > > 1) make it a part of Tahoe, specifically part of the Tahoe client > node, instead of requiring users to run some external program > > 2) make it available to a wider audience, instead of just those > who can install OpenGL/gtk/wx/etc ... > This, of course, is a severe tradeoff. The biggest downsides would > be giving up a number of good GUI toolkits, losing some flashy > animation features, and performance. I'd prefer the other side of this trade-off, because I imagine that animation features might turn out to be not just "flash", i.e. not just displaying the same information in a prettier way, but could actually create ways of seeing Tahoe that are impossible with the more limited alternative. As a third alternative, maybe Kevin would like to try newfangled web animation techniques such as SVG animation or the Canvas tag. I would support any of these three approaches, and will leave it up to Kevin if he has a strong preference. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
