Would that be accessible? In other words, is it blind/sight impaired accessible?
-Adrian --- On Fri, 5/1/09, Ean Schuessler <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ean Schuessler <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Microsoft NAV look and feel > To: [email protected], "adrian crum" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Friday, May 1, 2009, 4:31 PM > Converting the widget system to GWT would be a major > strategic challenge. You would probably need an entirely new > renderer that just sent the XML descriptions of screens to a > mini-screen display application on the client. The client > would then instantiate GWT widgets and bind them together > with events that would execute the server side logic when > they are clicked. > > One major difference is the fact that GWT widgets have > state in the sense of Swing or even JSF whereas OFBiz > widgets do not. > > ----- "Adrian Crum" wrote: > > It's a good thing we have themes - someone with > enough time on their hands could develop a theme that looks > like that. ;-) > > Someone suggested GWT two years ago and I took a look > at it. From what I recall, it requires some complicated and > sometimes convoluted markup in order to get the desired > effects. > > At around the same time, there was an effort in the > project to reduce markup and make it more CSS Zen Garden > like. The CSS Zen Garden approach won, and that's what > you see in the project today. I'm still in favor of that > approach. > > Btw, I wouldn't be opposed to having small changes > made to the markup to make styling a little easier. For > example, we could have the menu widgets output <div> > elements inside the <li> elements to make it easier to > style menu item backgrounds. > > -- > Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com > [email protected] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 > x 315
