On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Florent Daigniere < nextgens at freenetproject.org> wrote:
> > 3. "kick-ass design" is not a goal > > I've never said it is either. What I was doing is reminding Ian (sanity) > what > his points and arguments have been over the years. > How kind of you, my memory is getting a little rusty in my old age. > He's the one who has been pushing for a rewrite of fproxy and as far as I > understood, his train of thought so far has been the following: > - the design of the current interface sucks > => we need to do something about it as it repels users > - good coders are bad designers... > - good designers are not coders... > No, but the overlapping set of good coders that are also good designers is * extremely* small - I can count those I've met on one hand (actually my wife is one of them - but she thinks you're all too grouchy for her to work on Freenet's UI :-( ). > => we need a templating engine both can use and work with > - designers don't know nor use any templating engines > I never said that, I've worked with many designers that have worked with templating engines. > => we need plain HTML so that designers can keep on using their favourite > Adobe tool > As I mentioned in my last email, I think it's been almost a decade since I worked with a designer that wasn't comfortable working with HTML and CSS directly. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: ian at freenetproject.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20120328/9a27e57a/attachment.html>
