There's been a lot of discussion in some meetings around "UI Standardization". Here's my view I've expressed:
- I will always be in support of designers having whatever tool is needed for them to be able to mockup their work in HTML/CSS. I believe that working in this format is beneficial to communication, collaboration and quality.
- The kinds of controls that can be expressed in plain HTML/CSS is a fraction of what can be expressed using OOjs UI or any other JavaScript-based approach. Even simple things, like designing a type-ahead feature, can't be done using HTML/CSS alone.
This leads me to feel strongly that this while it might be cool for the production library (OOjs UI) to be used in some way to make the designer's work easier, it's not required and in no way should the designer's tool direct the implementation of OOjs UI or any production software.
- Trevor