On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Michael Turner wrote:
> People try to do something with the whole
> system, experience some success, start building things around
> the system, then find that something is wrong. They request
> fixes, or, ideally, produce them....
> If just data were enough, why do these 'data only' sites
> keep going stale?
Ok, I see now. I agree with that.
> I'd say "less philosphizing, more design"....except that it's
> really, "less philosophizing, more theft." Much as I love
> writing code, we should really be looking harder at the
> resources people have already turned up, and asking what
> we can start adapting. It's more about "what to reuse
> and rewrite" than "what to write."
Reuse is good, when you have a good, sufficiently featureful product
to reuse. I'm not sure we do in this case. You've already seen my
comments on ccpp and dice. Cocoon does not do what we need; it's
complementary. I mentioned it because I feel it would be good to
learn enough about it that we can write something compatable with
it. AxKit looks the same; it appears that our goal would be to
produce a media type choser plugin for it that would be able to
select appropriate stylesheets, and some sort of support for
producing style sheets for specific phones.
cjs
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Received on Tue Feb 26 05:43:19 2002