[wp-testers] Center
Doug Stewart
zamoose at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 17:37:04 GMT 2008
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> - bad minimum requirements (why can't I use the wp-admin pages from a
> Blackberry?)
>
Self-plug: http://wphoneplugin.org/.
It (appears) to work just fine with 2.5. We're looking to release a
new version soon.
>
> Every time one of us criticizes the new design we are told how hard
> the team tried and how much work went into it. Look. The team writing
> Windows Vista tried really hard and a lot of work went into it. It
> still sucks. Same goes for lots of other software. In open source
> usually software gets better BECAUSE the constant feedback of the
> community is taken seriously. I don't feel that our feedback is taken
> seriously at all - most if not all of the things I list above have
> been reported over and over again, yet nothing has changed.
>
I think they're waiting for feedback from more non-devs. I don't know
that I agree, as it may well be too late (i.e., giant black eye) once
this hits the Internet[s].
> The user interface of 2.5 is a CLEAR STEP BACKWARDS. And saying that
> this will be "fixed in 2.6 if enough users complain" is just
> ridiculous. Why make it worse to begin with???
>
In some ways, yes, in some ways, no. The unification of look n' feel
across Manage subscreens is almost a feature in and of itself, IMNSHO.
I think what you really mean, at core, is that the UI of the Write
screen is a clear step backwards, n'est pas?
> (just to be fair, there are new features that I love - like the media
> upload thingy; it also has usability issues (why does "insert into
> post" close the window if I just uploaded multiple pictures? Makes no
> sense), but it's a huge step forward)
>
> /D
>
>
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-Doug
http://literalbarrage.org/blog/
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