Scott Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 15:26 -0400, Damian Krzeminski wrote: > >> Without getting into too much details (check wiki if you are interested) >> looks like writing directly in javascript would probably give us a nicer UI >> initially but we would take some time to develop tools and framework to get >> productive and handle the pesky little issues like localization or unit >> testing. Using GWT would probably give us quick results but a more >> pedestrian look and feel. We would need to spend some effort to get to the >> level of blink offered out-of-the-box by modern javascript libraries. > > IMO - 'blink' is much less important that a clean look (I think most > Google UIs are outstanding) and responsiveness.
On that note: google wave is quite pretty (it's GWT + HTML 5) > > I also think that excellent support for small screen browsers (iPhone, > Blackberry, other smartphones) is essential - anyone who has one is > going to want to use it for user portal functions like manipulating > forwarding and voicemail at least. No argument here. The current trend is that projects provide a special version of UI to run on a smaller system (in most cases it translates into: 'optimized for IPhone'). There is no magical technique that gives us that automatically. But this is something that we absolutely can do. And it's much better solution than bringing the functionality to common lowest denominator, > > Another criteria to think about - how likely are you to be able to > recruit developers (either open source or employee) who already know how > to be productive in the chosen technology, and if you can't how long > does it take? > > That's why I try keep everyone informed and that's why I am asking for a feedback. And judging from response to my previous e-mail it's probably one more factor in favour of GWT. Over last couple of years I had a good fortune to work on sipXconfig with people willing to use best tools to solve problems and I hope to keep it that way. In other words: if you happen to be a current or future sipXconfig contributor don't count on not having to learn JavaScript ;-) Even if we do start using GWT. Damian _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
