From: Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft NAV look and feel
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, May 1, 2009, 5:14 PM
Be used by RTL languages, Arab, etc. ?
Adrian made efforts for that also, I think we can't
lose that on the road...
Jacques
From: "Adrian Crum" <[email protected]>
>
> 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
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