Matthew Toseland skrev:
- Use some third party HTML templating engine. These tend to be large, but this 
may not be a problem as our download is already rather large. This would enable 
us to rewrite the backend in such a way that themes could change the structure 
of the web interface i.e. what is on what page, rather than only being able to 
style what the Java code says is on a particular page. I am not convinced that 
introducing a query layer and a specialised language for writing themes gains 
us very much, especially as pupok is already fluent in Java.

I can't help but to think that we might already have had a kick-ass UI today, had we only had a template engine implemented a long time ago.

Hell, I myself tried to theme fproxy a couple of years ago - before I started on the Windows Installer - but gave up because of the lack of possibilities.

I know it's significant work to implement this though, so I can understand why it hasn't been done. I'd just like to point out that making it easy to people to contribute to a project usually leads to more contributions..

- Zero3
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