Platforms/APIs equals accessibility, good point. I stop presentation about how the major social networking platforms had their accessibility assessed, and the only one that even passed was twitter -- and twitter didn't pass because their interface is accessible (it isn't). It passed because they have open APIs so Qwitter and EasyChirp et al. have created the user interfaces which work for specific communities.
/me loves EasyChirp
Edited (if you read what I say out loud, it makes sense!) 2011-10-17 14:18 (UTC)
A great read and, as I've aged, I agree with this. I used to think that it should be limited (see: no feeds of the reading page) but now ... yeah, everything should be available.
This reminds me of a meta-discussion we had on the mailing list before, I think, we even had closed beta ... it was about APIs for external editors and about how own own posting interfaces (quick post, post editor, content importer, etc.) should use our APIs as well because it was an excellent way to force us to keep the APIs up to date.
I have a better idea now of how much of an unbelievably HUGE job it would be to make this happen, but I was thinking about it the other day because when I was debugging for the epic tag-limit-on-crossposting bug I hit code that actually had SQL queries in it and that really surprised me that there was raw SQL at that level of abstraction.
So yes, I'm very much interested in this area! If I had the brain power to even start to begin to abstract things out of DW I'd be doing it I think, it's definitely an inch I want to scratch :)
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It does seem like historically LJ / DW's customizability have been some of the big things driving their popularity.
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I have a better idea now of how much of an unbelievably HUGE job it would be to make this happen, but I was thinking about it the other day because when I was debugging for the epic tag-limit-on-crossposting bug I hit code that actually had SQL queries in it and that really surprised me that there was raw SQL at that level of abstraction.
So yes, I'm very much interested in this area! If I had the brain power to even start to begin to abstract things out of DW I'd be doing it I think, it's definitely an inch I want to scratch :)