http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/UI-Refactoring-progress-tp180410p180412.html
Yes, of course. I granted the license to it all.
> Adrian,
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> Are the images you included in your JIRA bundle free for use?
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> Andrew
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> On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
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>> A lot of progress has been made since the last update.
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>> 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.
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>> 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 -
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>> 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
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