2007-10-03, 14:07
I agree that basing a new skin on the concepts in Fluid would be a good idea (it was the skin I was actually thinking about when I said we could base it on an existing concept but I didn't want to mention it specifically in case it upset theDevil)
I also think that aiming to have one skin that works as well in 4:3 and in 720p is not really realistic as there are too many constraints placed on the 720p UI by the 4:3 version. It should be possible though to use a 'design theme' across the resolutions though that means that the skins would be based on similar components but may not look or work in exactly the same way. Mike, your idea of splitting the team into smaller teams for the different resolutions sounds like a good one to me as long as you have at least one person who is up to speed on what is happening in the various streams to make sure that they stay consistent.
I also think that aiming to have one skin that works as well in 4:3 and in 720p is not really realistic as there are too many constraints placed on the 720p UI by the 4:3 version. It should be possible though to use a 'design theme' across the resolutions though that means that the skins would be based on similar components but may not look or work in exactly the same way. Mike, your idea of splitting the team into smaller teams for the different resolutions sounds like a good one to me as long as you have at least one person who is up to speed on what is happening in the various streams to make sure that they stay consistent.
