Re: UI Refactoring progress

Posted by cjhowe on Jun 01, 2007; 6:51pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/UI-Refactoring-progress-tp181531p181532.html

Adrian,
Thank you VERY much for the amount of time and effort you put into this
area and for spearheading the effort!!!  It has greatly simplified that
area of the project and made it immensely more flexible and easier to
work with.

-Chris
--- Adrian Crum <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Only a few (but significant) changes have been made during the last
> month.
>
> OFBiz has a new look in the back office applications. Many thanks to
> everyone who voted for and
> commented on the new style, and thanks to Jacopo for getting it
> committed.
>
> As soon as the new style was committed, Andrew Zeneski went right to
> work refactoring the Order
> component to take advantage of it. There are still a few Order
> component screens that need updating.
>
> I put forth a RFC email asking for comment on simplifying the layout
> of the outermost HTML elements.
> So far Jacopo is the only one who has responded. Since there haven't
> been any objections, I'll get a
> patch submitted soon.
>
> A patch has been submitted to help advance the RTL layout effort -
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-998.
>
> Looking to the future -
>
> I would like to start removing unused styles from the maincss.css
> file. Once it is scaled down a
> bit, we can create a RTL version of it so that OFBiz can support RTL
> layout OOTB.
>
> I will be ramping down my involvement with the UI refactoring effort.
> Enough work has been done that
> any one of the developers can continue the effort by using the
> refactored components as a guide. I
> will continue to help troubleshoot UI issues and answer questions and
> such, but I won't be making
> any more broad, sweeping changes. I will also continue to refactor
> screens here and there as I come
> across them.
>
> Looking back over the last five months, it is inspiring to see how
> much progress has been made.
> Beginning around the middle of January 2007, the UI refactoring
> effort has produced the following:
>
>    Formulated CSS/HTML Best Practices
>    Consolidated the style sheets
>    Reduced the amount of code in the main style sheet
>    UI was made scalable
>    Default styles for widgets - reducing XML code
>    New styles for recurring HTML element compounds - reducing HTML
> markup
>    A new look (the gradients style)
>
> All of this was accomplished by a great team of developers who
> devoted a lot of time to the work.
> Thanks again everyone!
>
> -Adrian
>
>