Well done Zachary on such a faithful replication of the Google Wave styling!
However, for WIAB, I think it's important not to alienate the vast majority of internet users, whose browsers do not support CSS3. Even though visitors of the apache site are more likely to be using a CSS3-capable browser than visitors of an arbitrary site, one of the key selling points of WIAB over Google Wave is that it is intended to work in IE. Also, one of the distinguishing UI capabilities of Google Wave was the window/panel system within it (resizable, maximizable, minimizable, reorderable, etc). Without that panel system, it does not make much sense to me for the heavy frames to be so prominent in the UI. Since the project site is unlikely to have a windowing system at this stage, then carrying over that particular look doesn't make much sense to me. Although I'd prefer a clean, simple, content-driven UI for the project site, I'm trying to reserve my personal, subjective, preferences about graphic design, because I've been told (by graphic designers) that engineers make lousy graphic designers. -Dave On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Paul Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Does it really have to e that complicated? You only really need the fonts > and colour scheme and a logo. There is hardly anything wrong with the theme > at the moment TBH. The current scheme of WAIB is simpler still :) > > According to their licence GWave don't wasn't us to use their logo. > Presumably the old FedOne logo is ok, > > I think the simplicity and clarity of WAIB interface does it a lot of > favours. I think that should be reflected in the site and Wiki. To the point > without all the fluff of Gwave. GWave always struck me as a bit of a Yahoo! > interface TBH. Way too much crap on the screen. > > --- On Sun, 20/2/11, Zachary "Gamer_Z." Yaro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Zachary "Gamer_Z." Yaro <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: More Site Updates > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Sunday, 20 February, 2011, 23:47 > > I would like to suggest using my Wave > > UI > > CSS<http://mysite.verizon.net/zmyaro/projects/wave/ui.html>to > > style > > the site. It is a CSS3 stylesheet that immitates > > Google Wave's > > (and now WIAB's) UI. > > > > --Zachary "Gamer_Z." Yaro > > > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 18:13, Richard Vijay <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > yes i can help :) > > > warm regards, > > > > > > Vijay A Richard. > > > > > > "And Miles to go before I sleep" - Robert Frost > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Michael MacFadden > > < > > > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Wavers (yes, I said it..."wavers"), > > > > > > > > I have pushed some more changes to the wave > > site. If any one is > > > interested > > > > in helping with some content generation, let me > > know. We should probably > > > > start thinking about how we want the site to come > > together. We could > > > > definitely use some graphic design to make it > > look a little nicer. > > > > > > > > I also posted some changes to the wave incubator > > project page. There is > > > a > > > > section there for status reports. Not sure > > what we are supposed to fill > > > in > > > > there. > > > > > > > > > > > > ~Michael > > > > > > > > >
