Hi, On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:33, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Dec 9, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote: > > > Never used the Container macro, while the Box macro IMO is more highly > used > > (specially on xwiki.org) in combination with "floatinginfobox" class. > > Yes that's the proposal: to replace it since the container macro does what > the box macro already does and more. > > I'm +1 to deprecate the box macro and replace it with the more generic > container macro. > > We need to find a way for the info, warning and error macros to be > implemented using the container macro and still have icons. > Write the box macro as a superset of the container macro with the additional "title" and "image" parameters ;-) Guillaume > Thanks > -Vincent > > > Thanks, > > Caty > > > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 19:46, Anca Luca <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi devs, > >> > >> There is obviously some overlapping between the purposes of the box > >> macro (http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Box+Macro) > >> and the container macro > >> (http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Container+Macro), > >> namely that the box macro is just a very specific type of container. > >> > >> How do you feel about moving all or some of the box macros > >> functionalities to the container macro and either implement the box > >> macro as a particular type of container, or deprecate it completely? > >> > >> The way I see it is that the container macro would have parameters to > >> allow to: > >> * fix its size > >> * render a border around > >> * use a background color > >> * title (to be discussed, I am not 100% convinced that it's generic > enough) > >> * image (to be discussed, same) > >> * layout it inside text (float it to the left or right) > >> * other decorations we could find useful for the users (note that devs > >> could still write css if they want more). > >> > >> I know that all these functions can be accomplished by CSS, but so is > >> the columned layout, for example, and the idea is to provide to the > >> users an easy way to do it (in this case, WYSIWYG). > >> > >> I'm +1, regardless of the solution (deprecate or not), but I am very > >> convinced of the overlapping, they should not be 2 different > >> implementations. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Anca > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
