Hi, I love VarA, great work! However it's a bit laggy on my computer (when scrolling past the header so that the action bar has to reposition itself the first time, I have a slight lag in FF8.0 on Mac OS X.
If that cannot be fixed, I'm a strong +1 for VarC which looks much nicer than our current default skin and doesn't seem to have significant technical drawbacks. Guillaume On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a question regarding VarB : > > When you say "wait for a new complete skin", you mean something > completely different than the proposal in VarA ? > > If yes, then I would say, let's go for VarA, but do the new skin in > 4.x anyway. VarA could then be the "finalized" form of colibri (the > moment we say we don't make it evolve anymore except small things/bug > fixes). > I don't think the problems you mention for VarA are blocker, the > already exists in the current state anyway. They are definitely things > we should sort out, and if we are working on a new skin, that can be > the ideal time. > > WDYT ? > > PS: and yes, VarA looks great, it makes the skin much less "aggressive". > > Jerome > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > -- > Jérôme Velociter > Winesquare > http://www.winesquare.net/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
