Re: [Openinteract-dev] OI2: Use CSS for themes?

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

Andrew Hurst wrote:
> Definitely CSS.  On Scoop (http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/) we used all 
> inlined font/color etc tags and now are trying to move to CSS. Its not 
> easy.  As last count, I think there were over 500 places to modify.  
> Also, all code is built assuming that type of formatting.  All browsers 
> support some level of CSS now, so I don't think compatibility will be a 
> problem.  The only place I see problems are the more complex setups.  
> Like using no table tags, only CSS.  I think http://www.smokedot.org 
> does this.  (ok, after a quick check, they use some tables, but almost 
> all CSS.)

That's what I was thinking. (And the scoop comparison is apt since 
the theming part of OI was largely influenced by Rusty, IIRC.)

> In related news, how is OI2 going?  I've noticed the wiki docs have been 
> updated a lot lately...

Trying to build momentum :-) I have the general environment running 
under Apache/mod_perl 1.x, CGI and a standalone HTTP server (using 
LWP). The site can be deployed under the root or under any other 
directory, the controller is created and dispatching to the right 
action, URLs are created ok, all parameters (including uploads) work 
under all three environments, headers, etc.

I'm going to take some time and port some of the core packages to 
kind of smoke out where work needs to be concentrated. (Kind of like 
eating abstract dogfood...)

Chris

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