[Phli-developers] Backend/Frontend (was Re: Next real-world developer meeting)

[Johan V. <joh...@gm...>]

> Btw, I spoke to a guy at Update the other day. He was a bit interested in
> Phli and seems to have quite a few good ideas about GUI design. He
> suggested a few design changes to make the software perform better over
> slow links, e g modem or ADSL. The changes mainly involved making a more
> sophisticated server which does the resizing (to allow different
> thumbnail sizes or low-res images for previews) and caches the results.
> What do you think about this? Should we just go ahead with the current
> plans and make sure that backend - frontend separation is good enough to
> add something like this in the future? Or should we try to implement
> something like this in the first release?

I've always thought about it like this in a way, with a good
separation between backend and frontend. And now we need to decide on
a protocol too, wohoo!


-- 
Johan Viklund