[OSM-talk] Serious consideration of "Newbie Editor"

[John Smith]

On 26 February 2010 22:38, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
> if you're doing anything that involves not just POIs (and for various
> OSM reasons that's increasingly not so useful). This is more about
> good design than an inherent property.

Actually that's what most of this discussion has been about, making an
editor with the minimum amount of features that newbies are likely to
actually need.

> Higher memory and resource usage is about how you program it, and how
> the simple mode switch works, and isn't necessarily true at all.

More code loaded = more resources needed...

> Flash vs Javascript is not really relevant to the points made, unless
> you mean that there isn't currently a javascript editor to cut down,
> which is of course true.

This is commenting about previous emails on what should be used to implement it.