Hi *,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:32:59PM -0800, Kay Schenk wrote:
> 
> I will add something to my last reply. This specifically concerns your 
> idea about replacing the current site headers and footers with the "new" 
> header/footer styles.
> 
> There are new styles defined that do not relate at all to the styles in 
> tigris.css and inst.css, the old styles. I've just taken a look at 
> Ivan's new style definition and these two old css files. We've got new 
> defs for elements now that don't seem to exist in the older style defs.
> 
> Maybe I need to back down a bit from my last response. If we could come 
> up with a mapping of how Collabnet currently renders the old styles TO 
> the pages (this would take a LOT of digging!) with respect to tigris and 
> inst, it DOES seem feasible that we could make changes to the existing 
> site style files and edit in the new defs. Yeah--duh! on me I guess.
> 
> I, for one, don't remember how all this gels. Sorry about that.  Maybe 
> Christian could weigh in and point us in the right direction.

I fully agree with Maarten, that the CEE provided css (tigris, inst) are
a total mess, they really suck. They're misleading, bloated (probably
one third of the identifiers/classes are not even used anymore by CEE
itself), the definitions contradict themselves. It is definitely worth
cleaning that mess up.

Starting small (with the #important-decls) is a good thing as well. And
while I fear that the site will render strange for some time, I'm still
in favor of doing it. (Although I'm still pessimistic when it comes to
the next site-upgrade (when/if it comes))

I'm sorry if my "one needs to be careful when changing it" sounded like
"I'm against changing it" - this is not the case. It just means:
* you risk of disturbing the site (so make small changes you can trace
  back in case somebody complains)
* you probably need to do the same thing another time someday (so plan
  ahead, use ids/classes you can identify as our own so that we can dump
  the "new old thing" (new default CEE stylesheat) easily, without the
  need to triple check everything

ciao
Christian
-- 
NP: nichts

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