On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org>wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 17:18:54 Ian Clarke wrote: > > Unless those freenet devs are willing to build the GUI themselves, I > > recommend that you do not allow them to prevent you from proceeding. > > Someone willing to make things happen should not be prevented from doing > > so by someone with an opinion, but who isn't willing to do the work. > > Even if it means breaking existing code for a large minority of users? > (The whole no-javascript lobby)? Yes, the vast number of people that refuse to use anything but Lynx? There is RMS, who are the other ones? So far as I know RMS doesn't use Freenet so we don't have to worry about him. But seriously, it would be insanity to hold up development of a decent user interface just because of the griping of a few people who, for no logical reason, refuse to enable JavaScript in their browsers. If they care so much about it nobody is preventing them from creating their own non-JavaScript UI, but they shouldn't be able to hold up progress for the vast majority of people that don't have an irrational fear of JavaScript. > > Yes, but please don't let one stubborn person prevent you from making > > progress. The opinion that really matters is the opinion of the person > > that is willing to do the work. You should consider their opinions, but > > don't let them block progress. All other opinions are secondary > (including > > mine!), your opinion is what really matters if you are willing to do the > > actual work. > > Unless it breaks the code for a large number of actively contributing > users, and therefore costs us HUGELY. Which it will if there is no > non-javascript support. > If this is such a concern to them then they should be willing to implement their own non-JavaScript UI. They should not be permitted to stand in the way of people who are actually willing to do real work to improve the UI. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20120307/f9df1f04/attachment.html>
