On 8/27/13 12:18 PM, Fabrice Desre wrote:
On 08/27/2013 11:52 AM, Bill Maggs wrote:
The last item in Fred's list is I think a very high priority. Can the
buildingfirefoxos.com folk help?
I don't want to open a can of worms, but that is controversial at best.
Encouraging people to build apps that follow the same look and feel as
gaia apps and not just build "web apps" is not very much in line with
the "open web" idea. Will these app look also good on desktop (hint:
gaia apps don't)? Will they look good on android? Most successful apps
have their own look and feel, which is part of their identity. The Gaia
look and feel is ... Gaia's identity. I kind of don't want to get random
apps appear like default ones also; and while there's nothing we can do
to prevent that to happen, we should not promote it either.
I'm very happy to see brick solve the problem of providing well designed
and efficient reusable components, but we should stay away from the look
and feel. Please don't help build a firefox OS silo. Let other people
contribute fun and crazy themes on top of brick instead!
Fabrice
I hear ya, but I also think you're conflating two problems:
One, that we're trying to solve here, is the simplicity (or not) of
building an attractive and functional app UI. As we've shown many times
over (hat tip to the User Research team), many people want their apps to
look decent from the get-go, and they want to fit in. As much as we'd
like everyone to come up with a beautiful design on their own, this is
the starting point for most developers.
The second issue (and that's orthogonal to the first one) is the
problematic re-use of Gaia components because they were not written to
be run outside a very specific set of devices. That's something that
Brick can fix, independently, by providing responsive components and
ensuring the styles scale and behave as expected regardless of device.
This second problem is not an argument against shipping Brick with
Firefox-OS-esque styles, at least as one styling option of many.
~F
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