Comments on "About Xara Web Designer"

[netsi]

Remember how header placeholders were added after WD release as a response to the users request? How does it fit your interpretation of this phrase?

Perfect! I commented in the hope to make this product even better, and as you correctly mentioned I probertly got some of the statements wrong

But think about it - are the "serious websites" majority of the web? I don't think you believe it.

Well, I have previously used Xara Extreme Pro for producing serious websites and am hoping to start using XWD to do things like muck-up of websites too - also for serious web-sites.

So, Stan, you simply got a bit incorrectly the meaning of the article that you quote. It doesn't actually oppose most things you say.

Thanks, maybe I should try to pratice my poor english so I do not repeat this...

[netsi]

Just got an idea: Why not make a new forum called something like:
Xara Web Designer - "under the hood"

A forum where the technical (HTML/CSS/Javascript and other web-technical elements) can be discussed. For instance:

1. How do we make the output from XWD more jQuery (and other javascript API) friendly?
2. Avoiding inline style and using CSS classes.. what would be perfect?
3. Adding a standard which will allow for easy integration with web based content in websites generated by XWD. In a manner simular to the plug-in of Xara Extreme Pro.

Such issues which are focused on the "other" part of any website: The "under the hood" part, and not the design/layout part.

What do you think?

[remi]

Hi Sten,

I think John (covoxer) is on the way to develop such things.

See post #44 in this thread and John's answer:

It's not a fight against standards, it's management of development resources. Any feature that is useful and is not present is a potential feature to implement. But there are a lot of them, and development resources are limited. So the question here is not do it or not, but what to do first. That's all.

Regards,
Remi

[covoxer]

Just got an idea: Why not make a new forum called something like:
Xara Web Designer - "under the hood"

To make a separate forum it has to be populated enough. For the beginning you can create a thread and it will show if it's worth a separate forum.