On Jun 22, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Ecaterina Valica wrote: > Hi, > > When the CSS3 fever began, Raluca Stavro came to me and asked me what I > think about making a HTML5+CSS3 skin. My first answer was that is not gonna > happen. We invest very much in making our skins have cross-browser support > (especially old versions of IE). This is one of our strengths, but also the > reason we limit ourselves from innovation. > > When I'm talking about a "modern" skin I'm not only referring about HTML, > JS, CSS (having transparency, corners, multiple backgrounds, shadows without > having to triple the code and the number of hacks), but it's about all > cool/experimentation features, that boosts productivity, minimize code > lines, etc. but lack all/old browser support (SVG, location awareness, CSS3 > calc etc). > > So, in my opinion this would be an experimentation/shiny skin that by > comparison would make old browsers supporters and lovers to quit their old > behaviors and embrace the future :) :p > > So, the questions I have are: > > 1) would this be possible? would anyone want to do this sort of thing? I > know the biggest problem is gonna be the maintenance, but could bring lots > of innovation and productivity. > > 2) what feature/improvement/thing do you think it would be the most needed > for a new "modern" "skin" (the topic somehow go beyond the skin boundaries)?
Some remarks: * I like innovation so I think it's a good idea if contributors are interested in working on a such a shiny state-of-the-art skin that doesn't have cruft * Since XE is about the enterprise we should continue to support skins that work in enterprise environments, i.e with older browsers. * As Jerome said whenever we can, it would be good to enable shiny features "on the fly" when we detect the browser capabilities, even when using existing skins such as Colibri/Toucan. Thanks -Vincent PS: I'm removing the users list since this is a devs topic (it won't be the user doing the work... unfortunately... :)). And if you ask them if they'd like this, they'll say of course they do since it doesn't cost them much to say so... ;) _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
