First I want to thank you guys for creating such a great platform. CE is simple but powerfully extensible. I found out about CE while collecting plug-ins to create a rails based social site for a client. CE provided the best set of features and extensibility.
The problem that I had with CE began when I started a custom theme. I had never used YUI before and I did not know anything about it. I disliked it at first but I now appreciate many aspects of it. So I tried to replace it with blueprint. Because the templates are not as semantically clean as I would like them I had a hard time of it. Good thing is that it forced me to learn more about YUI. I also love sass and was disappointed that sass was not used in conjunction with the sexy HAML. I have fallen head over heels for the compass framework by Chris Eppstein (http://github.com/chriseppstein/ compass). So as the project progressed I changed more and more. I dropped scriptaculous and added jQuery (while attempting to maintain support for it through care and jrails), created sass files for the default theme, and began to change the HAML files to be more semantic and less YUI-y if you know what I mean. The default theme (and the one that I am creating) both use YUI but because of compass and a more semantically clean markup YUI can be replaced with any "framework" you choose. In ether SASS or CSS (*shudder*). The reason I am starting a discussion about this is because I would like to know if the CE community has been working on this and if so who. I haven't seen anything in the edge on GitHub or any of the big forks. If no one is working on it is anyone interested in having something like what I've been taking about? If so I can fork on GitHub and pull what I have done from this private repo and add it to that fork. If there doesn't seem to be much interest I probably won't bother and keep my anal-ness to myself. LOL Any Comments? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en.
