On 06/22/2010 10:19 AM, Ecaterina Valica wrote: > Hi, > > When the CSS3 fever began, Raluca Stavro came to me and asked me what I > think about making a HTML5+CSS3 skin. My first answer was that is not gonna > happen. We invest very much in making our skins have cross-browser support > (especially old versions of IE). This is one of our strengths, but also the > reason we limit ourselves from innovation. > > When I'm talking about a "modern" skin I'm not only referring about HTML, > JS, CSS (having transparency, corners, multiple backgrounds, shadows without > having to triple the code and the number of hacks), but it's about all > cool/experimentation features, that boosts productivity, minimize code > lines, etc. but lack all/old browser support (SVG, location awareness, CSS3 > calc etc).
Very nice, I was thinking the same a while back. > So, in my opinion this would be an experimentation/shiny skin that by > comparison would make old browsers supporters and lovers to quit their old > behaviors and embrace the future :) :p We need to seriously define our commitment to such a skin, if we decide to do it. A "nice but not important" skin will quickly get out of sync with the main skin, and start lacking features. > So, the questions I have are: > > 1) would this be possible? would anyone want to do this sort of thing? I > know the biggest problem is gonna be the maintenance, but could bring lots > of innovation and productivity. Possible. Me. Good code works well across skins without any maintenance needed. > 2) what feature/improvement/thing do you think it would be the most needed > for a new "modern" "skin" (the topic somehow go beyond the skin boundaries)? One cool but big feature would be offline access. Another would be SVG images/backgrounds, which can be styled with velocity (think color-themed gradients and special effects on buttons). A nicer font(s) to be used as default. Drag&Drop attachment upload. Most of these would fit well in the existing skins as well, as progressive enhancements. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
