22 Jun
2010
22 Jun
'10
11:02 a.m.
On Jun 22, 2010, at 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).
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
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.
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)?
Some remarks:
* I like innovation so I think it's a good idea if contributors are interested in
working on a such a shiny state-of-the-art skin that doesn't have cruft
* Since XE is about the enterprise we should continue to support skins that work in
enterprise environments, i.e with older browsers.
* As Jerome said whenever we can, it would be good to enable shiny features "on the
fly" when we detect the browser capabilities, even when using existing skins such as
Colibri/Toucan.
Thanks
-Vincent
PS: I'm removing the users list since this is a devs topic (it won't be the user
doing the work... unfortunately... :)). And if you ask them if they'd like this,
they'll say of course they do since it doesn't cost them much to say so... ;)