On Dec 10, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: > 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.
Why not remove it? What would we gain in keeping it? Thanks -Vincent > 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
