17 Dec
2011
17 Dec
'11
12:03 p.m.
I have a question regarding VarB :
When you say "wait for a new complete skin", you mean something
completely different than the proposal in VarA ?
If yes, then I would say, let's go for VarA, but do the new skin in
4.x anyway. VarA could then be the "finalized" form of colibri (the
moment we say we don't make it evolve anymore except small things/bug
fixes).
I don't think the problems you mention for VarA are blocker, the
already exists in the current state anyway. They are definitely things
we should sort out, and if we are working on a new skin, that can be
the ideal time.
WDYT ?
PS: and yes, VarA looks great, it makes the skin much less "aggressive".
Jerome
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
<valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Ludovic suggested we should refresh the Default Color Theme for XE 3.4 with
something new. Since (and long before) we dropped support for IE6 and IE7
(XE 3.2) I wanted to add some CSS3 enhancement to our default skin:
shadows, gradients, round corners, etc. So this is a good time to make a
proposal that integrates some CSS3 (gradients on menus, panels, tabs,
buttons, forms; text-shadows; box-shadows; border-radius;) and a new
ColorTheme into Colibri skin:
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/34Proposal
There are 3 directions that can be voted for this proposal:
*Var A:* Integrate the proposed Skin improvements and the new ColorTheme
into platform
Demo at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/WebHome
*Var B: *Don't integrate anything in the 3.4 timeframe and wait for a new
complete skin in 4.x = Current skin + default ColorTheme (no changes)
Demo at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/WebHome
*Var C:* Integrate just the new proposed ColorTheme that will replace the
current DefaultColorTheme
Demo at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Standards/WebHome
*Important remarks when making a decision:*
*Var B* and *Var C *does not involve any changes, problems or advantages
from the current Colibri skin.
Advantages for *Var A*:
- Tested on IE7, IE8, IE9, Opera 11, Chrome 16, Firefox 8, Safari 5 and
works beautifully.
- Uses CSS3 declarations that makes the skin more nice (gradients, round
corners, shades, etc.)
Problems for *Var A*:
- The existing ColorThemes (from the ColorThemes space and
extensions.xwiki.org) will become deprecated for XE 3.4 since the new skin
needs shades for the gradients (this means the existing ColorThemes
variables will be either used in ways they were not intended or they will
not have all the variables declared). See my previous mail about "[Discussion]
Problematic ColorTheme
extensibility"<http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/ex6fgou6fl6vjwfr>
- The CSS will become even more invalid (right now we have a
-moz-border-radius and a word-wrap non valid declarations), but the new
code contains 154 declarations for the gradients (covering
-moz-linear-gradient, -webkit-gradient, -webkit-linear-gradient,
-o-linear-gradient, -ms-linear-gradient, linear-gradient and filter:
progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient proprietary declarations). The
invalidity comes because the proprietary declarations are not yet W3C
standard (and will not ever be a standard). The proposed standard W3C
declaration (linear-gradient) is not yet supported consistently and
correctly by browsers, but when it will become standard we can remove all
the other proprietary declarations.
Please cast your vote.
Thanks,
Caty
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