Matias Capeletto wrote:
Hi!

I have commited a new proof of concept version of boostbook to
sandbox/doc_test/box_wrapper

The idea is to modify the way docbook renders blurbs and
programlisting:

   <div class="xxx"> .... </div>

to more flexible structures. All these blocks in box_wrapper version
are rendered like:

   <div class="xxx">
       <div class="box-outer-wrapper">
            <div class="box-top-left" />
            <div class="box-top-right" />
            <div class="box-top" />
            <div class="box-inner-wrapper">
                 ...
             </div>
            <div class="box-bottom-left" />
            <div class="box-bottom-right" />
            <div class="box-bottom" />
        </div>
   </div>

This allows us to do almost anything with them.

Can't you do this already using the border-top, border-bottom etc attributes in css? Or are the results subtly different?

If you have firefox (windows or linux) or Konqueror (and I think that
anything in mac too, and maybe ie7) you can see a doc_test xhtml with
a css that uses the box wrappers.
(please! please... read the comment at the end of this mail about
internet explorer 6)

http://tinyurl.com/ysk7z8

Look for admonitions, toc sections, code listings, tables. This is
just a proof of concept, but I rather like the green turning blocks...
specially the table :)
Comments are welcome!

I like it: but with the exception of the table, I'm not keen on the slightly thicker lower border. Sorry :-(

Code blocks and admonishments rock though.

ie6 seems to dislike everything that I have done today. I do not know
about the quirks of this browser. If there is someone there that wants
to help me porting this docs to ie6 it will be fantastic. If someones
out there knows web design (I have zero experience... no, two weeks
P) and wants to see these stuff reach mainstream please jump in and
help me. If you do not know boostbook it is ok. Just download the docs
and tell me what I have to change to make it work. Both the grouped
links and the box wrapper based css seems to fail there. Thanks!

Hmmm, I'm not sure I still have IE6: IE7 seems to display everything correctly but with an "errors on page" message: I've attached a screenshot of the message in case it helps track the issue down.

Opera 8 and 9 both display the document correctly BTW: although the callout graphics are misplaced in both (they appear above the line they refer to): seems like different browsers do different things here :-(

HTH, John.

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