This looks good to me. It's great to see these things cleaned up and
simplified.
-David
On Feb 1, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Thanks to Marco's tireless work refactoring the back office UI to
use the new styles, we are almost at a point where the deprecated
styles can be removed from the back office main style sheet. So, I
thought I'd share some ideas I've come up with since the UI
refactoring effort started and ask for comments.
1. Change the head1, head2, and head3 style names to h1, h2, and h3.
This will make those styles more interchangeable with <h> elements.
So, you could have
<h1>Some big bold text</h1>
or
<span class="h1">Some big bold text</span>
2. Remove color attributes from the h1 - h3 styles and have them
inherit their container's colors. This would make those styles more
generic and reusable. We could use the h1 - h3 styles mainly for
font size standardization, and leave any additional styling to the
container. This approach will also reduce the complexity of the main
style sheet.
Markup can be simplifed by using the h1 - h3 styles as decorators
for other styles. For example, instead of:
<div class="screenlet-title-bar">
<h3>Some Title Text</h3>
</div>
you could have
<div class="screenlet-title-bar h3">
Some Title Text
</div>
This approach would fix a layout bug in the screenlet title bar. It
would also work better with the screen widget's HTML output.
Idea #1 is a simple search and replace operation. Idea #2 will take
more work because the style change will break existing layout. Those
instances will be easy to find though, by searching for the
particular styles.
3. Work on better IE7 compatibility. When I first created the new
styles, everything rendered looking pretty much the same in Firefox
and IE7. Now IE7 doesn't render as well. I don't know what changed,
but I'd like to investigate it and get that fixed.
4. Once the back office style sheet has the deprecated styles
removed and some tweaks done, it would be nice to bring the new
styles and the lessons learned over into the ecommerce style sheet.
That's it. What do you think? Does anyone else have any ideas?
-Adrian
