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Jacques Le Roux commented on OFBIZ-5040:
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Hans,
Yes we had this discussion (about enhancing widgets) before. Here I try to make
my mind on the efforts which should be engaged concerning backend overhaul.
Pesonally (and I guess everybody) I'd not like to *uselessly* spend time on it.
So I want to be sure we have a *consensus* and it's the *right one* for the
5-10 future years... For 2-3 years now, I see less efforts put in OFBiz. On one
hand, this is normal since OFBiz is already mature. But I also wonder if more
people are not heading to other directions (eg Moqui) or use OFBiz in other
ways. For instance as an underlying tool (eg using Entity and/or Service
Engines but not the rest, ie widgets and minilang). So we need a brainstorming
on what is happening and where we should go (put our efforts).
> Backend widget & application HTML clean-up
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>
> 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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