Hi, One of the many tasks associated with the work of UI Options is the ability to style unknown markup. Jacob and I have been experimenting with our high contrast skin and some of Fluid Infusion's in context examples to find out how much we can do without knowing anything about the markup.
As we expected, there were many places where CSS collisions resulted in a page that had styling issues. We knew that we were going to hit some of these issues given the experience of the Transformable project. We also know that if the user provides us with contextual information about the markup we can do a better job of restyling the page. What we are trying to do is the best possible job with no additional information. The five issues that remain after our changes to the existing high contrast skin are: 1. font size in form controls was not adjusted This is an area that we still need to do some research and experimentation. 2. font sizes that had been specified using pt, px, x- were not adjusted This is because we are using relative sizing for fonts. We think this is a better way to go and perhaps the answer here is to advise the integrator to also use relative sizing for their out of the box CSS. 3. icons that were background images on empty anchors were removed We felt that the heavy handed approach of removing background images was appropriate for a high contrast skin. This will not be appropriate for our other skins so the larger issue of background and foreground colours will need to be dealt with as we move forward. In this particular case, we could use a strategy of adding the 'alt text' of an empty anchor to the UI when we remove the background image. 4. iframes were not restyled We can solve this by finding the iframes in the page and injecting the required style-sheets and class names. 5. things that were styled using important were not adjusted There is not much we can do about this given the rules of CSS. Likely the only option here is to implement a hinting strategy where the integrator can provide us with more information about the markup. You can see the results of our experiments on the wiki. http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/4INI Michelle _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
