>From the look perspective VarA is a great step forward. Now I understand
the technical issues. Maybe the devs can find some solution to extend the
color themes to support this.

Otherwise VarC is also a good step forward.

In any case it's great work. The earlier it gets in the product the better.
We need this.

Ludovic

2011/12/16 Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]>

> Hi,
>
> Ludovic suggested we should refresh the Default Color Theme for XE 3.4 with
> something new. Since (and long before) we dropped support for IE6 and IE7
> (XE 3.2) I wanted to add some CSS3 enhancement to our default skin:
> shadows, gradients, round corners, etc. So this is a good time to make a
> proposal that integrates some CSS3 (gradients on menus, panels, tabs,
> buttons, forms; text-shadows; box-shadows; border-radius;) and a new
> ColorTheme into Colibri skin:
> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/34Proposal
>
> There are 3 directions that can be voted for this proposal:
>
> *Var A:* Integrate the proposed Skin improvements and the new ColorTheme
> into platform
> Demo at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/WebHome
>
> *Var B: *Don't integrate anything in the 3.4 timeframe and wait for a new
> complete skin in 4.x = Current skin + default ColorTheme (no changes)
> Demo at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/WebHome
>
> *Var C:* Integrate just the new proposed ColorTheme that will replace the
> current DefaultColorTheme
> Demo at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Standards/WebHome
>
>
>
> *Important remarks when making a decision:*
>
> *Var B* and *Var C *does not involve any changes, problems or advantages
> from the current Colibri skin.
>
> Advantages for *Var A*:
> - Tested on IE7, IE8, IE9, Opera 11, Chrome 16, Firefox 8, Safari 5 and
> works beautifully.
> - Uses CSS3 declarations that makes the skin more nice (gradients, round
> corners, shades, etc.)
>
> Problems for *Var A*:
> - The existing ColorThemes (from the ColorThemes space and
> extensions.xwiki.org) will become deprecated for XE 3.4 since the new skin
> needs shades for the gradients (this means the existing ColorThemes
> variables will be either used in ways they were not intended or they will
> not have all the variables declared). See my previous mail about
> "[Discussion]
> Problematic ColorTheme
> extensibility"<http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/ex6fgou6fl6vjwfr>
> - The CSS will become even more invalid (right now we have a
> -moz-border-radius and a word-wrap non valid declarations), but the new
> code contains 154 declarations for the gradients (covering
> -moz-linear-gradient, -webkit-gradient, -webkit-linear-gradient,
> -o-linear-gradient, -ms-linear-gradient, linear-gradient and filter:
> progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient proprietary declarations). The
> invalidity comes because the proprietary declarations are not yet W3C
> standard (and will not ever be a standard). The proposed standard W3C
> declaration (linear-gradient) is not yet supported consistently and
> correctly by browsers, but when it will become standard we can remove all
> the other proprietary declarations.
>
> Please cast your vote.
> Thanks,
> Caty
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