I buy into the consistency argument but still do not want to see annotations in the trivial cases.
I am talking about consistency of different kind: tool does everything for me till it needs guidance. It is about Sensible defaults philosophy and following conventions philosophy. For example the now famous âRuby-on-Railsâ is entirely built of conventions and enjoys enormous success (although at my taste RoR relies on conventions too much). --- Ivano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm totally with Pat and Scott on this. > For a tool to behave consistently is a critical > point, and to do this > you should avoid different behaviour without any > apparent reason. > In the long run the simple routine of performing > those little but > familiar steps will become automatical for you > (believe me, it's true), > while > preserving consistency and clarity for the newbies. > > -1 for automagical annotations =) > > Ivano > > Patrick Casey wrote: > > > I'm with Scott on this one. I think that less > auto-magic, not more, > >makes the framework infinitely simpler for new > users to understand. One of > >my long-term usability complaints about tapestry > 3.0.3 has been the > >inconstient use of the "ognl" prefix in an effort > to save keystrokes because > >tapestry should just "know" that I mean the > litteral "foo" instead of the > >derived value getFoo(). > > > > I'd hate to see the same confusion make its way > into Tapestry 4.0 as > >well. To my way of thinking the additional > keystrokes required to annotate > >everything the same way is more than offset by the > shorter learning curve of > >a system that has one, and only one, consistent way > of injecting things into > >pages. > > > > --- Pat > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Konstantin Ignatyev PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000 Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997: (4) (5) (p.206) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
