User interface framework

Our new user interface framework is taking shape. It is built on top of what we now refer to as a user interface platform (of which we will have two versions, more on this later), and a few JavaScript libraries. Once everything is in place, it will look like that:

• User interface platform (two compatible options)
• CoffeeScript
• jQuery
• jQuery UI or jQuery Mobile (depending on the user’s computing device)
• LESS (for the pre-processing of CSS stylesheets)

We also expect to embed a few jQuery plugins, but we’ll be rather conservative on that front, trying to keep both the user interface and its underlying codebase as simple as possible. And we still need to decide how we will manage our typographic resources.