I'd love to have an independent skinning module that all renderers can use.
We'll need a good plan on how we want to break this up and what APIs we
have available for the renderers, what's public, what's private, how it
works for pda, for portal, etc. We also need to put in place lots of
tests so that we can ensure we don't break anything. Right now I do
manual testing -- I run the app in a couple different skins and save the
css file. Then before I check in I run the skins again and compare the
css files. I do this in compressed and uncompressed modes. I'd love it
if we have some automated tests so that we don't break skinning as we
are refactoring it.
One feature I think we need is an API for the renderer to be able to
'map' a skin selector to something else -- like "af|foo::bar-link" could
map to "af|foo::bar A". We don't want to expose af|foo::bar A as a
public skin selector because it shows the implementation of the
renderer. Right now we do this in FileSystemStyleCache, and that's
obviously not a good way to do it. Anyway... that's on my list.
Cristi, I'm interested to see what you have done.
- Jeanne
Simon Lessard wrote:
Hello Cristi,
It would sure be nice to have an independent common skinning module
for custom component libraries. However, I wonder what version of the
skinning module you used and how you handled dependencies while
refactoring it because there's many changes with skinning with every
releases.
Regards,
~ Simon
On 7/30/07, *Cristi Toth* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi all!
I just finished my diploma project on Skinning in MyFaces
More exactly, what I did is refactoring out Trinidad's skinning
feature into an independent module
I also did a small and simple module that adds this feature to
Tomahawk.
It's very simple to use. It is intended to demonstrate how easy is
to add skinning features to any component-set
In the skinning module I tried to refactor and simplify the old
Trinidad code behind.
But there is some more work to do.
So how do you think this would be usable to MyFaces?
I mean what should I do now to get this code used and improved by
the community?
Wouldn't be nice to try to make Trinidad use this module and get
rid of the skinning code from it?
I'm waiting forward to your feedBack
Best regards,
Cristi Toth
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