UI toolkits for Python

[Mike Meyer]

aleaxit at yahoo.com (Alex Martelli) writes:
> Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
>> What surprises me is that marketing types will accept turning away -
>> what's the current internet user base? 200 million? - 10 million
>> potential customers without a complaint. Or maybe they just don't get
>> told that that's what's going on.
> In firms where marketing has lots of power, they may indeed well decide
> to pursue those "10 millions" by demanding an expenditure of effort
> that's totally out of proportion

What makes you think that the expenditure of effort is "totally out of
proportion"? In my experience, that isn't the case - at least if you
go into it planning on doing things that way. Retrofitting a site that
was built without any thought but "make it work in my favoriter
browser in my favorite configuration" can be a radically different
thing.

> Maybe that's part of the explanation for the
> outstanding success of some enterprises founded by engineers, led by
> engineers, and staffed overwhelmingly with engineers, competing with
> other firms where marketing wield power...?

You mean like google? Until recently, they're an outstanding example
of doing things right, and providing functionality that degrades
gracefully as the clients capabilities go down.

           <mike
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