On 12/08/2010 07:46 PM, Anca Luca 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? +1 for making box macro a particular type of container. Thanks, Marius > > 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
