On 8/14/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
It still requires effort for us to work into the interface. And it's going (as far as I understand) to require users to go to a different
Picnik actually recommends that you make it a frame or otherwise embed the Picnik bit inside the host site (Mediawiki).
site, when we could with not too much more difficulty implement much of the same functionality ourselves. Plus yes, we do indeed have a
I'm not convinced of that. Designing good user interfaces is hard. You really think we can produce anything close to Picnik?
bias against using proprietary software with Wikipedia, if we can avoid it. In the case of databases of real-world information, the only good sources are in many cases commercial and proprietary (for now), so we don't have much of a choice. But for software, why should we settle for closed-source when we can without too much more difficulty use an open-source alternative?
Ok, if our two choices are: Picnik or native solution, you (and probably most of us) prefer native solution. If our two choices are Picnik or nothing, I say, let's get to work.
And of course, when I say "let's", I mean me. :) With a bit of help.
Steve