Hello, On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:24 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. > > +1 for Var A. It looks way better than what we have right now and given the fact that we will be able to update the CSS once linear-gradient will consistently be supported by browsers, I think that we should do this step and provide a brighter UI. Raluca. > Please cast your vote. > Thanks, > Caty > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
