Re: [Openinteract-dev] OI2 + CSS + XHTML thoughts

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

Salve J Nilsen said:
> ...
> I've noticed the "Themes" discussion in the OI2Ideas wiki page[1], and
> based on it, would like to propose some thoughts for the CSS effort
> ahead. I'm sure I haven't considered everything, and hope we can get a
> fruitful discussion before we start on 1.99_07... :)

Thanks so much for putting this together. Probably the main reason the OI
interface stuff is behind the times is because I'm behind the times. I
haven't kept up with how most websites are built now (most of my $DAY_JOB
web work is building or testing internal sites) so I'm unlikely to offer
much help beyond backend organization and some help with making calls
(like 'append_style', 'append_script', etc.) consistent.

But since you guys are actively building sites with OI2 and using it in
your daily work your opinions (and code) will have more weight. And you do
have CVS-write access :-)

I'm not sure about Teemu's suggestion about getting rid of widgets. In
particular, I think the various form widgets can actually help migrate
from a table-based to a style-based layout. So something like:

 [% INCLUDE label_form_text_row( label = 'Foo', name = 'foo', size = 30
... ) %]

can be changed behind the scenes to emit whatever is CSS-friendly instead
of a table row with two cells. Maybe that's naive?

That said, I do think it's easy to go overboard with the widgets.

I still need to read through and digest everything you've written here.
More soon.

Later,

Chris

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