I agree that we should migrate FTL templates to ofbiz widgets for the sake of consistency throughout the interfaces. However, I do have to say that I would not use form widgets to develop a customer facing site. At this point, Brainfood is pretty much at a consensus that we do not want to do "page template" oriented development in the server at all. When you look at applications like Google Maps it becomes clear that the "send post, alter state, regenerate and send page" workflow is incredibly limited. The future seems to look a lot more like applications written in Javascript that generate HTML directly in the browser.
So, for us, the important feature is the JSON-RPC interface for this remote applications. It would be genuinely interesting if we could write a client side form widget interpreter that would delegate generation of the interface to the client side and then supply the "action" interface via AJAX. That is something we would be very interested in. Refactoring the widget generation code to support greater modularity in the HTML could be another target of such an effort. I made some modest efforts towards a Bootstrap based OFBiz theme and I found it difficult to make progress with the current setup. ----- "Gavin Mabie" <kwikst...@gmail.com> wrote: > It appears that the citing of Drupal/WordPress/Magento solicited quite > a > lot of comment. It's a side issue really and whether some houses > prefer to > integrate existing solutions is besides the point. More importantly, > most > commentators would agree that theme developement in Ofbiz does require > more > attention. The vast majority of threads on this ML focuss on backend > business rules and processes. That in itself is not a problem - if > you > regard Ofbiz as a Framework only. It only means that, as far as > frameworks > go, we need a better framework for theming as well. This will > encourage > more participation from developers who have more of a front-end > orientation. I would support a drive towards better "themeability" > in > 2014. In this regard I would like to suggest that we take a look at > the > VisualThemeResource entity which currently is currently poorly > defined. > > Gavin -- Ean Schuessler, CTO e...@brainfood.com 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com
