Re: UI Refactoring progress

Posted by Andrew Zeneski-2 on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/UI-Refactoring-progress-tp180410p180411.html

Adrian,

Are the images you included in your JIRA bundle free for use?

Andrew

On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:

> A lot of progress has been made since the last update.
>
> The Webtools and Accounting components have been refactored. One of  
> the committers re-introduced deprecated styles in the Webtools  
> component (*cough* Andrew *cough*) so I had to go through it again.  
> Committers - please watch out for this. Let's not go backwards.
>
> The masthead (header), main navigation bar, and footer have been  
> refactored. The new HTML markup makes the page layout extremely  
> flexible. For instance, you can now move the masthead, main  
> navigation, and footer to other locations on the screen, just by  
> making a few changes to the main style sheet.
>
> If you have been updating your local copy of OFBiz regularly, you  
> probably get the impression that the main navigation bar is having  
> an identity crisis. Actually, we're just trying to come up with a  
> style that everyone likes. If anyone would like to contribute their  
> own style, they are welcome to do so.
>
> I submitted a new style for the project which has gotten some  
> initial positive feedback - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ 
> OFBIZ-918. Go check it out and vote for it if you like it.
>
> The refactoring effort has made a serious impact on the amount of  
> markup generated. Pages that used to contain 100 to 200 DIVs now  
> have 12 to 20.
>
> Looking to the future -
>
> I started taking a look at the Order and Product components. They  
> have hundreds of files and I believe some of them are shared with  
> the eCommerce component. I'm not sure where to go from here on  
> those two. If I refactor them, then that might break eCommerce -  
> since its style sheet doesn't contain the new styles.
>
> I'm working on some ideas for a collapsible masthead. It will  
> enable a user to free up more screen space.
>
> I hope to take a look at the menu widget soon. I'd like to have it  
> support nested menus - so that we can have fancy cascaded or flyout  
> menus.
>
> -Adrian