22 Jun
2010
22 Jun
'10
11:02 a.m.
On 06/22/2010 10:19 AM, Ecaterina Valica wrote:
Hi,
When the CSS3 fever began, Raluca Stavro came to me and asked me what I
think about making a HTML5+CSS3 skin. My first answer was that is not gonna
happen. We invest very much in making our skins have cross-browser support
(especially old versions of IE). This is one of our strengths, but also the
reason we limit ourselves from innovation.
When I'm talking about a "modern" skin I'm not only referring about
HTML,
JS, CSS (having transparency, corners, multiple backgrounds, shadows without
having to triple the code and the number of hacks), but it's about all
cool/experimentation features, that boosts productivity, minimize code
lines, etc. but lack all/old browser support (SVG, location awareness, CSS3
calc etc).
Very nice, I was thinking the same a while back.
So, in my opinion this would be an
experimentation/shiny skin that by
comparison would make old browsers supporters and lovers to quit their old
behaviors and embrace the future :) :p
We need to seriously define our commitment to such a skin, if we decide
to do it. A "nice but not important" skin will quickly get out of sync
with the main skin, and start lacking features.
So, the questions I have are:
1) would this be possible? would anyone want to do this sort of thing? I
know the biggest problem is gonna be the maintenance, but could bring lots
of innovation and productivity.
Possible. Me. Good code works well across skins without any maintenance
needed.
2) what feature/improvement/thing do you think it
would be the most needed
for a new "modern" "skin" (the topic somehow go beyond the skin
boundaries)?
One cool but big feature would be offline access. Another would be SVG
images/backgrounds, which can be styled with velocity (think
color-themed gradients and special effects on buttons). A nicer font(s)
to be used as default. Drag&Drop attachment upload.
Most of these would fit well in the existing skins as well, as
progressive enhancements.
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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