[dojo-contributors] Dojo Developer Day #2 (a.k.a.: 3D2)

[Owen Williams]

On Dec 11, 2006, at 7:09 AM, Tom Trenka wrote:
> I think that what I'm trying to get across is that we need to stop  
> trying to make the widget system everything for everyone, and focus  
> it on where most people seem to want to use it--which in my mind is  
> less about customization and more about quick development.  Because  
> of that, what I'm suggesting is that we forget about things like  
> skinning, and simply create something that is more focused than  
> what we have now.


I'm all for focusing on actual use, but I think skinning **is**  
important to people who would use dojo's widgets.  IMO (and I'm not  
speaking for the team, but we have discussed this) Zimbra would  
consider using dojo's widgets if they were considered "production  
quality".  This means fast, stable, well documented.  However, since  
Zimbra is a skinnable application, if Dojo's widgets were not  
skinnable, we couldn't use them.  I don't think "skinnable" has to be  
that hard -- we're really talking about CSS changes, so I don't think  
we have to throw that out of the current system to make it viable.

thanks
O

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