> > There are things I like about Centipede, too, e.g. the cents, and I think
> > there could be a lot of synergy between maven and centipede, e.g. the skins
> > side of things is something I'd like to see with maven, but looking @ POI's
> > site under Linux, the stylesheets need some work :)
> 
> Andrew, consider using the CSS from the Tigris Style project
> <http://style.tigris.org/>.  It's a new project, but already in use in
> several major OSS code bases, including Maven, Scarab, and Eyebrowse.

I looked at these and they're a major pain in the *** to modify - you
have to modify code in 3 places in 3 files or something for every change
you wish to make; css classes are used more widely than their naming
implies, etc.

While this is a very plausible effort and I would like to help out, I
found it too difficult to figure out where to start so ended up
reworking some design I had lying around to do a quick demo. People
liked that a lot and it got used in POI. While cross-browser support is
somewhat worse, the sheet is generally clean enough to understand.

It'd be cool if the style.tigris.org stuff got some docs and a little
refactoring so I could take those as a basis to start from and do some
tweaking. As it stands, such 'tweaking' would be a maintainance
nightmare.

> The CSS was developed primarily by Todd Fahrner (a co-worker of mine
> who did a bit of work on the spec), and has excellent cross browser
> and accessiblity support.

I would have to disagree on the accessibility. Without going into
details (most of you wouldn't be interested), I found it too difficult
to figure out where to submit what kind of patch.

Maybe in a few weeks...

cheers,

- Leo



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