Hi, sounds really good, I’m looking forward to see the results!
Presumably you are going to put more logic (and offline caching?) on the client? And then make the SOGo server itself more like a JSON gateway server? You can use a custom SOPE renderer to expose the SoObjects as JSON. I recently prototyped something like that for OGo/J. A completely stateless middleware server and a ExtJS5 frontend containing all the UI logic. (I wouldn’t particularly recommend using ExtJS for SOGo, I just tried it out for fun) I also played with Zurb Foundation a few months ago and liked that. I stopped looking at AngularJS as it’s a Google project, and well, such often don’t have a lot of longevity ;-) Greets, Helge On Jun 12, 2014, at 4:14 PM, Francis Lachapelle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Since the release of version 1.0 five years ago, SOGo has gained a lot in > maturity and tons of great features. However, we feel like the UI and UX of > the Web interface have been neglected and deserve a good amount of love. > That's why we have big plans for the next major release of SOGo. We want to > leverage the stability and flexibility of the backend to completely rewrite > the front-end with modern technologies that will allow the evolution of SOGo > for another five years. > > The biggest challenge we want to meet is the accessibility of the Web > interface from modern mobile devices. SOGo is already accessible to mobile > devices through CalDAV, CardDAV and ActiveSync, but some users still want to > access their data through a Web browser. That means removing double-clicks > and contextual menus. It also means responsive design and simplified UI for > small screens, all without penalizing desktop users. > > We've been analyzing and testing various options for the past few months and > we decided to build the new Web interface with the following open source > projects: > > - AngularJS (https://angularjs.org/): a powerful open-source web application > framework. The project is already very popular and has a promising future. > - Foundation (http://foundation.zurb.com/): an advanced front-end framework > combining a flexible grid system and a great bare style to build a custom > look and feel. > - Ionic (http://ionicframework.com/): a new framework to build hybrid mobile > apps with HTML5. While our initial goal is to offer a very functional Web > interface to mobile devices, Ionic will ultimately help us to package a > native app of SOGo for Android and iPhone devices. > > SOGo is a complex Web application and deserves a serious front-end > architecture. That's why we'll adopt a MVW (model-view-whatever) structure on > the front-end (AngularJS), use Sass to build the CSS (with Foundation), and > use a specific framework for the mobile version of the Web interface (Ionic). > > If you are a UX expert, a UI designer or a JavaScript developer and you want > to contribute to the revamp of the Web front-end of SOGo, please contact us. > Share your ideas, sketches and inspirations on what would be the very best > open source groupware for you. > > Thanks, > > Francis > > -- > [email protected] :: http://www.inverse.ca > Inverse :: Leaders behind SOGo (http://sogo.nu) and PacketFence > (http://packetfence.org) > > -- > [email protected] > https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists -- [email protected] https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
