I plently agree, this is what http://www.cato-commerce.com/ do for instance OFBiz ecommerce frontend is just there to show what's possible to do with OFBiz in this area.
Jacques On Saturday, January 04, 2014 7:09 PM [email protected] wrote > I have participated in a number of discussions along this line - > beginning with the 2007 developers conference. My perspective back then > hasn't changed - instead of trying to make OFBiz more Drupal-like or > more WordPress-like, let's leave the job of CMS to existing products and > find ways to connect those products to OFBiz. > > Adrian Crum > Sandglass Software > www.sandglass-software.com > > On 1/4/2014 12:28 PM, Gavin Mabie wrote: >> Hi Guys >> >> Best wishes to everybody for 2014. I would like to support the >> prioritisation of theme development for 2014. Jacques, I noticed that you >> are specifically talking about backend widget >> forms. What about ecommerce? IMO that little attention is given to >> frontend design and even less is done to accommodate design-orientated >> developers. Theme developement in Ofbiz has a long way to go if it is to >> reach the levels of standardisation, ease and portability attained and used >> in CMS apps like Drupal, WordPress etc. and Ecommerce packages like >> Magento. Keep up the good work. >> >> Gavin >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Jacques Le Roux < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> To be pragmatic, rather than working on new features, a new framework or >>> whatever, I'd like to work on "Widget & Application HTML clean-up" >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5040 >>> >>> I have heard much complaints about this and I'd really like to 1st replace >>> as much as possible the Freemarker templates used in backend by widget >>> forms. >>> >>> I know already some cases where it's impossible, like the geo location. >>> But in most cases this should be possible and would much facilitate >>> designers work, when themes or such are needed. >>> Because we would then have a consistent HTML generation. >>> And in most cases even a better (consistent) UI, compare the old Price >>> Rules and Promotions for instance >>> (still available at >>> >>> https://demo-old.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditProductPriceRules?productPriceRuleId=9000 >>> >>> https://demo-old.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditProductPromoRules?productPromoId=9000 >>> ) >>> >>> Because it contained a new FTL template, I recently refused to commit a >>> working patch for "Improve to allow purchase order ship method options" >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5387 >>> >>> >>> I though must say that I still want to finish pending new features >>> (actually 2 new specialpurpose components) >>> >>> 1) I expect to merge the seo branch soon >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5312. >>> I only see minor issues now, and anyway at some point you need to have >>> your feet wet... >>> >>> 2) And to finish the Solr integration >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5042. >>> I sill have to figure out how bad is the security issue. In a first step >>> adding a credential acces to the the Solr admin should be enough. But yes >>> underneath is not totally secured as is... >>> >>> Jacques >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:55 PM >>> [email protected] >>>> Maybe we can use the start of the new year as an opportunity to consider >>>> the future of OFBiz and update our road map: >>>> >>>> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/New+Features+Roadmap+-+Living+Document
