On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Gabriel Wicke <gwicke(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
This does complicate matters a bit for product, as
decisions in this
area are very dependent on technical detail and differ from case to
case. It would however be sad to see more manpower in product to result
in less attention being given to this detail in the name of easily
presentable support charts.
That was a bit mean-spirited I think. The work to make the site degrade
gracefully is not just on the product management side, it is also effort
for designers and features engineers which may already feel overworked
maintaining one version of what they build -- or rather, one version for
many skins and languages.
I was going to go on a long rant here in response to your assertion that we
shouldn't have a flashy interface, but I'll spare everyone and just say
that I strongly disagree.
Steven