Move towards unified L&F and extended branding support
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Key: FELIX-1959
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1959
Project: Felix
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Web Console
Reporter: Valentin Valchev
Priority: Minor
Attachments: jqueryui-vs-default-lnf.png
Currently the Web Console uses heavily on the JQuery framework. Using a unified
JavaScript framework simplifies development of all plugins and unifies the used
approach.
However, when talking about visual styling, there are number of differences
because each plugin developer uses own styles.
My suggestion is to adopt the JQuery UI . The benefits of using it as unified
widget/css framework are:
- no time to spend on writing widgets already in the library
- clean CSS visual styling
- easy way to change the L&F by changing the theme (extended branding support!)
- improved cross-browser support (JQuery UI takes care of CSS differences)
Using the JQuery UI framework the developer shouldn't care about color but only
for layout - components position; and for data being displayed.
To illustrate the benefits I've saved the "Log Service" page, modified it to
use JQuery UI, took screen-shot, modified the theme CSS only, and again took
screen-shot, and finally added the original L&F for reference, so you can
easily compare the result.
The attached image contains the combined screen-shots.
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