The reason why I think it's a terrible way to go about it is it completely violates good web app design concerns. It uses the View and the Model and half of the Controller as a TERRIBLE API to construct a new view, a new hybrid model which consumes the view and the model and turns it into a new model, and new controllers which have to account for all this mess to create a new, more reasonable, interface. It's possible, sure, and if someone smarter than I am can show how to do it well, I'd rejoice and sing hosannas. I've been doing this awhile though and CSS improvements, like what tobyink did, and perhaps some Ajax voting are about as much as could be expected and it wouldn't be super easy and would (probably) still require user action to add the CSS and JS manually. Therefore this would be of zero use to newcomers and casual visitors... If the Gods determine the scripts/CSS are safe enough to implement in the actual site delivery, maybe... I would never advise anyone to build out technical debt though. I wouldn't try to stop them to strongly either. :P

The core of what this site is/does is quite basic and if just a couple of monks with the chops committed to it, it would be done in 6 months. Less if bikeshedding could be avoided.

In reply to Re^11: Update the GUI (What we want?) by Your Mother
in thread Update the GUI by Anonymous Monk

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