Hi Paolo, Paolo Ambrosio wrote: > Well, after many days of work, this is what I can offer to cocoon > portal. Attached you can find a new skin [1], very similar > to "common" style but with div/css layout instead of tables. This is > because I concentated on coding instead of graphic design and because > I'd like to have the same style rendered using both tables and divs. Thanks for your work, fantastic.
> Indeed, some time ago I posted on bugzilla a DELI Aspect Renderer [2] > to develop a portal skin that could recognize browser capabilities > and render the portal using the table or the css layout as needed. > But in this skin that renderer is not used, so I just said it to let > you know why I used the old portal style. Ah, ok, I saw your contribution, but never had time to really look at it... > > I structured my xsl files in a modular way to be easily used by > other skins. I think the xslt code is quite self explanatory. The > only "strange" thing is in the icons.xsl file. I found the original > window.xsl quite confusing and difficult to maintain and modify: > all icons are put in the window transformation template. So if > someone wants to modify the icons layout, he should replicate his > style through all icons. And what happens when a new one is added? > With my stylesheets to add a new icon the only thing to do is > add an entry to the generate-icon-set template. If someone wants > to change the icon style, he should just change the draw-icon > template. Yes, good idea. > Just to test my ideas about code reuse in skins, I made a modified > version of Helma's layout to demonstrate how it could be done. > Most files simply import my sheet without modifications. This is > attached to the email as well [3]. > > To install just unpack the archives in portal-samples/skin/ > and make an entry on portal-sample/conf/cocoon-portal-sample.xconf > Of couse, you have to select one of those skins in > portal-samples/sitemap.xmap > > I have some ideas for cocoon portal, but first I'll wait your > comments on this before :-) > :=) I like your contributions and I think we should apply them (or most of it). Unfortunately, I won't have time for it in the next four weeks...so perhaps someone else can have a look at it? And of course, I'm curious for your other ideas/comments! Thanks Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler - Open Source Group, S&N AG http://www.s-und-n.de http://www.osoco.org/weblogs/rael/
