http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/UI-Refactoring-progress-tp180410p180414.html
Thanks! Now go place your vote... :p
> Nice job...
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> Andrew
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> On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
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>> Yes, of course. I granted the license to it all.
>>
>> Andrew Zeneski wrote:
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>>> 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
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