On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Jonathan Solichin <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello friends and Jerome, > > Thanks for the response. > > > > Can you describe us the issue you are trying to address regarding this > > sidebar and the associated javascript ? > > It looks like unnecessary complexity for me. Aren't media queries just > > enough to have the sidebar resize/move when the viewport size changes ? > > I'd like we keep things simple as much as possible, so tell me if I'm > > missing something. > > So the reason i am using javascript, is because although media queries > handle viewport changes, its adaptation is does not completely work in some > scenarios. Eg. the sidebar scrolling area (for when there's a lot of things > on that topic), would require a fix height to get the overflow to work (or > else it will stretch along and will no longer be a "fixed sidebar"). > However, if we have a fixed height, during viewport size change it would > cause an issue (of it no longer being a fixed sidebar since it's longer > than the viewport). i think there is a couple other issue that prevented me > from using straight up html/css, but I can't think of it at the moment. Let > me know if you have a better suggestion! > > Additionally, I want the sidebar to be resizable at least a desktop/tablet > level where there is a good amount of width so that if you're more concern > on reading the additional info, you can get more space for it. The great > thing (or the idea behind) the sidebar was to allow supplemental info to be > viewed along with the content (think Microsoft SmartGlass if you've learned > about that aha). But the issue is that the size of a sidebar is not always > optimal for reading long contents, so i want it to be resizable > to accommodate. So this resizing thing will also be done via jQuery. > > In any regards, I have been to resolve most of the issue and it seems to > work well atm (let me know any bugs that i missed). Again you can check out > the working demo that i'm working on at: http://jssolichin.com/xwiki . > Unfortunately the code behind is a bit ugly right now, and need to be > cleaned up. My next step is to finish up the navigation (the mouse over > event revealing different sections and the icons indicating content on each > section) and making it look like the mock up. > > Most of use are using either OSX or Linux. Are you following > > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Building ? > > I am. Which distro? and oracle or openjdk for java? > > Personally Arch Linux and Open JDK, but that should not change anything. > What module are you trying to build exactly ? Most of the times you don't > > need to build everything, but just the module(s) you are working on (and > > possibly the final distribution, like XE). > > I'm trying to build your Lyrebird (from its source) to learn about creating > VMs. I think I am able to build it now actually. I am going into the > lyrebird directory and running "mvn clean install -Phsqldb,jetty" to build > it. But I am still not sure what to do next? Can you point me in the right > direction? > You can drop the hsqldb,jetty profile for the skin, it does not have such profile. Note that I've publised the skin on extensions.xwiki.org : http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Lyrebird+Skin See the instructions at the bottom to install it on a XWiki instance. Unfortunately right now skins cannot be installed right from the extension manager, but that will be possible in the future. Jerome > > Thank you again! > Jonathan Solichin > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Jérôme Velociter Winesquare http://www.winesquare.net/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
