Jacob's agreed to give us a code tour of FSS tomorrow after stand up.
That would be a good time to discuss this issue and come to a
decision. There is agreement that we need to standardized how fluid
components use FSS but I'm not sure that we know at this point exactly
how we'd like to do this.
Michelle
On 4-Mar-09, at 1:24 PM, Jacob Farber wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Something that I think we should take care of by the time Infusion
1.0 goes public should be the inclusion of FSS class names in
Components' dynamic options.styles object, and the name-spacing of
default component selectors. This would separate the practices of
selecting something versus styling something.
There are a few reasons why I think this is an important initiative:
Clearer roles: By default, it gives a clear distinction where
stylistic selectors end and purely structural selectors begin.
Separation of Style & State: This will emphasize how CSS is not
embedded in a components fundamental operation, its merely enhancing
it.
Easy modifications: similar to our templating concept; it will
become more obvious that if you change the default selectors, you
wont break the appearance and vice-versa. This encourages better
coding practices since there will be no fear of optimizing code, and
no mystery as to where those modifications need to be made.
For a components default selector namespace, I would recommend using
a variant on the FSS "fl-" namespace: "fl-find-" and whatever you
are looking for. I think it's a good idea to use a single major
prefix (that being the "fl-") in all our materials (FSS, Components,
etc).
So, this would mean every component would need to be "scrubbed" to
comply with some sort of consistent selector namespace, as well as
all the styles:{} blocks need to be converted to FSS class names. In
some cases, there is no FSS class name where there might need to be
one, so it will have to be added. These are pretty large tasks, but
I would be happy to help here.
What do you think?
Jacob
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University of Toronto
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