[JDEV] JabberCentral [Was: Trillian Poll]

[Michael Brown]

Andrew Writes:
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>From the amount of interest this idea is generating, it sounds like all
>we're missing before this site goes ahead is a volunteer, a server, and
>the nod from Peter.

Why on earth would we need a nod from Peter to set up a website?

>On the point of client ratings, the next step on from that would be to
>request user comments on the clients, then for someone running the
>site to turn those into feature requests and/or best practice guidelines
>for client developers to look over when dreaming up an UI.

Forget the UI best practises guidelines.  I wrote such a document years ago
and while I got a lot of good feedback from client developers, the general
opinion of the list was that it was a "Bad Thing" (tm) because people might
take it as an official view of what a Jabber client should look like (and
most clients at the time looked nothing like it).  In the end I decided that
the only real way to show someone what a GUI should look/behave like was to
create a client - which is what I am doing with Marc's help.

The article is archived here if it is of any interest - since the only link
I know of that pointed to it was on JabberCentral I doubt it has had many
hits:  http://www.yabber.org/design/

Michael.