[gmpi] Re: Req 76,78

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:14:39 +0000

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:02:31 +0000, Angus F. Hewlett wrote:
> OK.. I'm just thinking that we should be strongly discouraging novice 
> developers from writing their own UI code unless they *absolutely* 
> *need* *to*, there's so damn much you can break in subtle ways there.
> 
> IMHO it would do a lot for overall stability if we made it considerably 
> more straightforward for newbies to use markup rather than writing GUI 
> code... and having them supply markup as the basis of the UI at 
> API-level might encourage that.

I agree FWIW, and not just newbies either, it can dramatically reduce the
"time to market" for plugins if you can get non-programmers to do the UI
layout.

I still dont think it should be a specified part of GMPI though.

For one thing market forces should sort out which is the preffered
solution, rather than mandating, or suggesting one in the GMPI process.
GUI markup systems can be plugged in at any point by 3rd parties if the
API is specified correctly (not hard).

- Steve

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