Re: Google Summer of Code proposal for Javascript Frontend

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin <at> v.igoro.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Naveen Kumar
<naveen.iitm90@...> wrote:
>> This is first draft of my proposal. Please give your feedback
>
> As I mentioned in IRC, this looks good.
>
>> 1. Javasciprt frameworks:
>> Possible options:
>>         1. jQuery
>>         2. Dojo
>>         3. YUI
>
> This is a good preliminary list.  I suspect that part of the summer
> will be building "test" implementations in a few frameworks so that
> you can make a judgement based on experience.
>
>> 2. User interface design:
>> This is the best time to implement a better looking design. I am not
>> very good with web design. I am going to need help with that part. My
>> idea of implementation is, first implement a general template which
>> will be used in all the pages then implement rest of the features on
>> it.
>
> As Tom said, I think that the UI design is a separate task from the
> implementation of basic usability.  We don't have anyone within the
> project who has a great strength here, either, so this may be
> something to leave unfinished, in the sense that the UI at the end of
> the summer is perhaps a bit clunky, but all of the support is there
> for someone else to improve it.