Re: UI Refactoring progress

Posted by Andrew Zeneski-2 on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/UI-Refactoring-progress-tp180410p180413.html

Nice job...

Andrew

On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:

> Yes, of course. I granted the license to it all.
>
> Andrew Zeneski wrote:
>
>> 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