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- Can we include screen shots from commercial sites?
Discussion
We expect that visitors to the OSDPL will all be seeking information that assists them in some sort of design undertaking, but there will be some variation in just what they are looking for, depending on their individual professional interest.
- Design Pattern Authors will be looking for examples of prior art, and inspiration for their own creations. They will appreciate the employment of good design principles.
- Designers will be seeking well-crafted templates on which to base actual designs for implementation. They will like to see examples of how templates translate into a highly usable and readily understood mechanisms.
- Developers will place a high value on information that assists them in implementation. If there is a good solution to a problem that can be illustrated through fragments of code or markup, a developer will appreciate their inclusion in the information attached to a pattern.
The challenge is to present the content of the library in such a way as to enable each viewer of a pattern to find easily the type of information they need most.