I think you might actually have a good point here - it might be nice
to have a "Wicket Widgets" project strictly for custom widgets. It
would be a nice way to organize extra widgets.
On 6/14/06, Ayodeji Aladejebi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know of Wicket Extensions and Wicket Stuff etc but I look forward to
> Wicket Widgets Stuff where users can donate all sorts of resuable widgets to
> wicket community that carry all sorts of behaviors needed to enrich Web user
> experience
>
> As an example, i have been trying to create Wicket Menu bar component by
> trying to reduce my effort to something close to Swing
>
> I am not talking of something like echo2 now, I am talking of all those
> common stuffs in web development packaged in a cross browser reusable wicket
> components.
>
> MenuBar bar = new MenuBar("web-app-menu", ...)
>
> MenuBar will be a customizable markupcontainer that will have vertical drop
> down capabilities
> Menus and MenuItem will simply be Wicket Links instances.
>
> My major headache started when i realized how horrible CSS can be across IE
> breeds and Mozilla and other browsers, IE expecially so i spent more time
> trying to sort out making cross browser CSS vertical menus for my wicket
> project. Now that should not be because for me if wicket were to fulfil its
> vision, developers should spend more time with Java than cracking thier
> heads on how to do common stuffs with CSS or Javascript.
>
> Therefore I think encouraging widgets contribution will also be fine. I am
> not a cross browser CSS expert but there a lot out there willing to donate
> reusable CSS codes for creating common widgets on the browser
>
> Scrolling
> MenuBar
> etc...
>
>
>
> Anyway for me, it boils down to one thing,
> I am trying to create MenuBar, Menu and MenuItem for my project and i need
> cross browser CSS for vertical drop down menu,
>
> Something like this
> <div wicket:id="MenuBar" class="menubar">
> <ul>
> <li wicket:id="Menu"><a wicket:id="MenuItem"></a></li>
> <li wicket:id="MenuSeperator"></li>
> <li wicket:id="Menu"><a wicket:id="MenuItem"><img
> wicket:id="MenuImage"></img></a></li>
> </ul>
> </div>
>
> But i am scared of the CSS hell out there and i dont even know where to
> start digging for good cross browser CSS to use for this, so please who has
> a reference to the CSS library that can make this life easy
>
> Thanks :)
>
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