Matthew Toseland skrev: > - Use some third party HTML templating engine. These tend to be large, but > this may not be a problem as our download is already rather large. This would > enable us to rewrite the backend in such a way that themes could change the > structure of the web interface i.e. what is on what page, rather than only > being able to style what the Java code says is on a particular page. I am not > convinced that introducing a query layer and a specialised language for > writing themes gains us very much, especially as pupok is already fluent in > Java.
I can't help but to think that we might already have had a kick-ass UI today, had we only had a template engine implemented a long time ago. Hell, I myself tried to theme fproxy a couple of years ago - before I started on the Windows Installer - but gave up because of the lack of possibilities. I know it's significant work to implement this though, so I can understand why it hasn't been done. I'd just like to point out that making it easy to people to contribute to a project usually leads to more contributions.. - Zero3
