Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Scott Shawcroft <scott.shawcroft AT gmail.com>]

I think that license classes would be neat but from a UI standpoint its
getting messier and messier.  We introduced a number of additional
elements in the last release and adding another is not good for the
current UI.  I would suggest a widget redesign.  The widget should be
more elegant.  Alex could probably help out here.

Asheesh, I know you wanted to align the liblicense widgets and the
jsWidget so now is the best time I think.

Cheers,
Scott

P.S.  I'm excited to see things happening.  Where are the Gnome people?  :-D

Jon Phillips wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 22:06 -0700, Jason Kivlighn wrote:
>   
>>>> It would be interesting as well having mimetype license resolving.
>>>> With this I mean that the properties dialog should remove all
>>>> selectable licenses for letting on the dialog only those that match
>>>> those mimetypes.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Yes, Jason, do you have any ideas on this?
>>>       
>> Technically I can think of various implementations... any would be
>> fairly straightforward and simple.  I won't spew any technical details now.
>>
>> I'm typically wary of anything that's done based on automatic mimetype
>> detection.  I feel like there always needs to be a fallback if the
>> detection isn't right, the user wants to do something out of the
>> ordinary, or if a user wants a specific license class (e.g. content
>> licenses) for an unknown mimetype.
>>
>> I'm throwing out my thoughts.  The details can be worked out closer to
>> when someone is actually on implementation.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason
>>     
>
> yes, I agree too...use the users...automatic license enforcement and
> selection get into a gray zone...
>
> Jon
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