Hi,

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Andy Schwartz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Andrew Robinson
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > I would like to have:
>  >
>  >  1) Major and Major.Minor support
>  >  2) A syntax that is already supported by CSS @ styles in at least one
>  >  browser or as close as we can come
>  >  3) Range, greater than and less than if possible
>
>  These all sound good to me.  The underlying style handling layer (the
>  old XSS stuff) was never designed to support #1 or #3, but think it
>  would be worthwhile to see what we can do to address these.
>
>
>  >
>  >  #2 I think is really important so that skinning feels familiar to CSS
>  >  developers.
>  >
>  >  If the solution meets those needs, I will be very happy, but others
>  >  can decide on the exact syntax, I'm flexible
>
>  I've got a process question here, which I am a bit hesitant to ask
>  given our recent "discussions", but, well, what the heck... Shouldn't
>  we be discussing/reviewing such requirements/API additions before the
>  changes are committed to the trunks?  Not that I am not grateful that

at least (I personally think) having a "I am about to commit this" is not a
bad thing (tm)

>  Cristi has invested the time on providing a solution (thanks for doing
>  this Cristi!).  I am just wondering whether in general it would be
>  better to review/agree on new APIs before they get committed.
>
>  Does Trinidad (or MyFaces) have any policy/guidelines on how new
>  API/feature additions should be handled?  Not picking on Cristi here -

Nope. Not that I know. Some other Apache projects have; some not.
I think that for adding new APIs, we might want that we at least get
an alert before :-)

>  I recently added some new skinning features myself and wasn't sure
>  whether there were some specific steps that I needed to follow.

haven't you ping the mailing list? If not, go ahead !

If it is just still in jira, well... it can be
there for a while. Bug trackers aren't that cool for discussions. Mailing
list are (I hate forums)

-M
>
>  Andy
>

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