RE: [Rainbowportal-devel] Themes & Zen

[Jonathan M. <jon...@jo...>]

OK,

I'll open an issue in Jira later today, to set up some voting, but like you
said, I do not see that much activity there YET :-)

IE7 Scripts - these are scripts that are intended to correct bugs in the way
IE handles css, so that you get the same result in all the browsers. Great
concept, but in my opinion overkill. I rather put a little effort into
putting css hacks into the theme, and making sure it works, without the
heavy JS.

xAPI - this is a cross browser DHTML api. It doesn't do anything unless you
tell it to in contrast to IE7 scripts. What the xAPI brings to the table, is
a set of premade, tested, stable JS classes that you can use and implement.
From basic core DOM to advanced tooltips, sliding, popups, tabs, menu's.
Once again, it doesn't do anything unless you tell it to. Ie7 scripts always
run through your HTML to see what it can fix. It also has lots of
documentation and samples on the site www.cross-browser.com so you can read
more about it.

My thought on Zen2...I don't really like it. Starts to make too many things
that the rainbow team would have to maintain and support. A better idea I
think, is say Corrected zen maybe only for 1.6 or 2.0 track, and 1.5 is
stays with current Zen. So then its in the hands of the users, if they want
the headache of upgrading their custom sites. If you already have a zen site
that works, then maybe the upgrades I am speaking about are not nessesary
anyway for you, as you see wiht rainbowportal.net you can have a working
site with current zen. I also saw other samples of people who did the same.
Usually they don't use the DHTML menu's to avoid the horrible page load
tiems.


-----Original Message-----
From: rai...@li...
[mailto:rai...@li...] On Behalf Of Joerg
Szepan
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 3:11 PM
To: rai...@li...
Subject: RE: [Rainbowportal-devel] Themes & Zen

Dear Jonathan,

let me say at first the following:
I wanted to express how deeply I appreciate your work within Rainbow
the last weeks.
Thanks for the good work. One can't argue with that!

1)	Changing Zen
	Changing Zen is may not a good idea for people which setup
sides with the current zen.
	Would it be possible to build up "Zen2"?

2) 	IE7 vs xAPI
	I don't know both, but if xAPI is really better and will be
continued developed
	It would be may a good enhancement. Is there something like a
Comparelist from both?

May you should put that into Jira so we can vote for it.
The voting is may rare used, but should be more used in future.

Kind regards
Joerg Szepan






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