[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Portlet Integration - Client Side

Hi devs, In order to integrate XWiki in a portal ( http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/PortletIntegration ) we need to change a bit the front end to: * ensure XWiki's HTML element IDs are unique within the portal page * ensure XWiki's stylesheets doesn't affect other portlets and the portal page itself * ensure XWiki content is not affected by stylesheets of other portlets or the portal page itself We could do the following: (1) "Mark" IDs and class names whenever they are used in JavaScript code, both in-line and stand-alone, using two identify functions: id(String) and className(String). This is required because identifying automatically IDs and class names in JavaScript code is not always possible. (2) Automatically rewrite IDs and class names in CSS and HTML (except in-line JavaScript) and "marked" IDs and class names in both in-line and stand-alone JavaScript code before the response for each of the resources (page included) reaches the client. This can be easily done in the XWiki portlet bridge ( http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xwiki-portlet/ ). Final IDs and class names will include the portlet identifier and the XWiki namespace (e.g. a simple 'x' prefix). (3) Split XWiki's stylesheets (e.g. colibri.css) in two: (a) general rules, including skin reset (b) XWiki specific rules (i.e. with selectors including class names or IDs) and import only (b) in portlet mode. WDYT? Thanks, Marius