(obviously going through posts from the last week).
ALso, it IS clear from the description that the old dialog box/
sheet approach will still be available. I think the idea of having
the document appearance change dynamically as you mouse over the
icons for the design changes is a real coding challenge but could
make users much less prone to making dumb design decisions.
Not sure it is a coding challenge. You can very easily achieve such
effect with HTML+CSS. The challenge is not about the programming side
of things, but about coming up with very clever ways of representing
the information. MS has announced a move to XML (http://
msdn.microsoft.com/xml/, http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.aspx?
pull=/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/
odc_xmlinoffice2003_summarydoc.asp). Clearly, that's the kind of
benefit you get when you spend more time thinking about the intrinsic
organisation of your data than about the hacks and get around in your
coding.
But XML is clumsy to use and read, time consuming to produce, not
really good at mixing different data structures. Agreed. That's why
there is now a move to Microformats: http://revolution.lexicall.org/
wiki/tiki-index.php?page=StandardsMicroformats.
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set
of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted
standards.
In a sense, it is different mini xml patches within a page.
Marielle
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