Neither you nor I know if the developer has discussed the issues with Dr. Pande, nor do we know there is any kind of a dismissive attitude toward new ideas. The stance that a 3rd party script should not repeatedly reference the cgi scripts is not new although it appears to have been unknown by the widget developer. I've already said that I believe that a "click to refresh" is going to be acceptable and a timer-based script is not. That has nothing to do with a new idea, but until we hear the results of a dialog between the two of them, we're both just guessing.strayduck wrote:As for the topic at hand, my read on this widget thread is that Pande is taking the common engineering stance of being dismissive towards new ideas (that, in this case, offer a plug to a gaping UI hole for free). I could be wrong, but then again, an outsider has only a few threads like this to make a judgement on.
It looks like the developer is more than willing to work *with* pande to make sure he's doing things the "right" way, if there is an easy tech solution you can say "try it this way" instead of "just stop" or presuming that it was done the wrong way without asking.
How about we let them discuss it and work it out.
