On 12/10/2010 03:38 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > 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? Box macro could extend the container macro with title and icon. Message macros would still use it. Thanks, Marius > > 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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
