[Sigia-l] DHTML Menus and HTML Widgets

[Listera]

"Ben Henick" wrote:

> The following statement of Ziya's message was what tweaked my nose - if
> you keep designers and developers in their own sandboxes entirely because
> each is best at one thing,

I made no such 'statement'. You're putting words in my mouth.

I said IAs (or designers, for that matter) who are not confident/competent
in various technologies should refrain from making *specific*
recommendations, regardless of how tempting that might be.

It's one thing, for instance, for an IA/designer to spec data to change in
one part of a page without a page refresh for aesthetic, workflow,
interface, etc., reasons. It's something entirely different to
*specifically* spec frames, iframes, Java applet, Flash, etc., to achieve
it. Each has very different technical ramifications the IA may not be able
to grasp.

As some who has spent well over a decade on both design and development, I
think I can see the potential landmines there.

> Yes, there is a huge difference between markup and application code,

Mine was a simple, narrow question; you answered it now; thank you.

> whether the latter is on the client or the server side.

Markup and programming are different things, regardless of where they are
deployed.
 
> A designer who does not know (at the very least) the strengths and
> limitations of JavaScript will be hard pressed to create highly
> interactive UI's that don't drive the developers/programmers responsible
> for their implementation to distraction.  Period.

I don't think anybody said otherwise.

Best,

Ziya