Re: life into plone design mailinglist / documentation todo list for 2.0

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:03:24 +0100, Alexander Limi wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 05:47:46 +0100, Michael Zeltner  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 

> I'm reading it through Gmane, so I wouldn't show up in the subscriber list  
> anyway. :]
>

Likewise. Gmane r001z (did I just say that? ugh...)
 
>> so i hope this is the first mail which will bring some life into this  
>> list ;)
> 
> Amen to that.
>

We can discuss parties and cream cakes and jam (I'm in a facetious mood
tonight, sorry :)
 
> 
> You're learning, glasshopper ;)
>

I don't want to know what a glasshopper is, but I agree that a push
towards readable (ie, well edited and proof-read documents that truly
inform) documentation is essential.
 

> 
> The journey has just started, there are legions of people still waiting to  
> see the light. :)
>

We're responsible for a lot of people converting though. We should take
pride in that accomplishment whilst still trying to do better.
 
> 
> Every UI element of Plone needs to be documented - we need a "Plone UI for  
> Product creators", and a "Plone UI for the Casual Customizer" :)
>

We should treat classes and IDs in exactly the same way as the tags of
XML. They're semantic markup. We shouldn't use selectors from the CSS file
as the shape of the CSS reference. That was an error I made with the Plone
1 reference that I do not wish to see perpetuated now we can make a clean
break.

-- 
Joe Geldart
Co-founder, Netalley Networks LLP
http://www.netalleynetworks.com/




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