Hi Adrian, I agree with you on all these points, probably we can also replace all the <b> tag with <span class="label">. In any case there still some deprecated style to be removed from the forms in the back end application and still some application to be converted to the new styles (like order entry, ecommerce, specialpurpose applications, framework applications). I have tried to used head3 instead of use head4 into the screen and seems to me ok.
Thanks Marco ---- Il giorno 01/feb/08, alle ore 19:32, Adrian Crum ha scritto: 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
