Re: 0.4.0pre16

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:57:48AM -0800, Alex Russell wrote:
> 
> Right. One of the biggest problems with widget development is the 
> sheer amount of mind-numbing detail work. I, for one, am not a 
> graphic designer. Combine that with performance constraints of 
> working in the browser and a general lack of developers who "get" UI 
> engineering (let alone UI engineering in a browser context), and 
> you've got a recipe for medieocrity. nW currently has several "killer 

It is tough to produce great widgets in a web environment. Even if you
get it right porting it to the different major browsers is a major pain.

> widgets", but they're only "killer" because someone funded my 
> development time and provided both requirements and a user base. That 

Which ones are the killer widgets? 

> combination is much more likely to produce great components than a 
> vacuum of those drivers would. OTOH, I do think that producing 
> capable "plumbing" is something that the open source side of things 
> succeeds at. It's funny that way: it's almost our own microcosom of 
> the tradeoffs and pressures that formed Mac OS X.
> 

I fully agree. It takes major resources to produce a good collection of
widgets. Add to that the different browsers and size constraints, and
we're talking about a quite serious project.  The Mac analogy is
interesting. Seeing that I've been using FreeBSD since 1995, it make me
want to use NW even more :-).

Regards,

Dror

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Dror Matalon
Zapatec Inc 
1700 MLK Way
Berkeley, CA 94709
http://www.zapatec.com

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