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Paul Piper commented on OFBIZ-5040:
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Thanks for the feedback. Those are the ones that I am refering to. The biggest 
issue is that apps often introduce new html rather than rehashing the 
available. This is probably due to the fact that most are not really using the 
existing macros and rather reinvent everything, which makes it all the more 
difficult to work with. So my idea was to go over the application ftls at some 
point and reworking them to use the proper macros instead. Otherwise I fear 
that we will never get to fix this beast.
                
> Widget & Application HTML clean-up
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFBIZ-5040
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5040
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ALL APPLICATIONS
>            Reporter: Paul Piper
>              Labels: html, webapp, widget, widgetrendering
>
> I am sure that this is a common thing to know: the current backoffice 
> application relies heavily on widgets. This is good, but the current 
> standard-html-structure is not flexible enough and often lacks proper w3c 
> implementation. 
> To make matters worse, you can often find applications avoiding widgets at 
> all and rather overriding the standards with custom ftl implementations. It 
> is these customizations that break the html on numerous screens and make it 
> difficult, if not tedious to create new themes for the backoffice. 
> This task is hence to:
> * Find a consensus on a new widget standard
> * Go over each of the application ftls and convert these to the new standard 
> * Recreate the themes and simplify/clean-up special rules
> Since redoing the theme is a rather large task, we should consider to add an 
> additional css for now which stylises the replacement html instead of working 
> with the old. 

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