--- Carl Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've mentioned a couple of times recently that I've > been working on a > replacement for H-W. > It's codename is HTML::FormFu, and I've decided to > post an example of > the markup it currently generates, including example > css, in case > anyone's interested in giving feedback. > > http://www.fireartist.com/tmp/html-formfu/vertically-aligned.html > > So far I've only tested it on firefox > (linux/windows) and IE (windows). > > Here's the program used to create the page: > http://www.fireartist.com/tmp/html-formfu/vertically-aligned.pl > http://www.fireartist.com/tmp/html-formfu/vertically-aligned.tt > It's a bit crowded due to the size of the form, but > it provides an > example of the similarities/differences with H-W. > > Here's the css: > http://www.fireartist.com/tmp/html-formfu/vertically-aligned.css > http://www.fireartist.com/tmp/html-formfu/vertically-aligned-ie.css > The 2nd file contains an IE-only style. It's loaded > using a html/IE > comment hack. > It's not that big a deal, style-wise, if you choose > to not include the > IE css file. > > Most of the code functionality is working but I > can't put it in a > public svn quite yet, as I started off with the H-W > codebase, and so > the copyright notices in all the files are out of > whack. - A minor > thing which I'll fix after the weekend. > > However, for now, I'm just hoping that I get some > feedback on my > proposed markup and css classname use. > > Cheers, > Carl
Carl, This looks really nice, esp. some of the new stuff you mentioned such as being able to easily initialize from a config file. One this that gives me a lot of trouble with H::W is that I found it difficult/unclear to make custom element classes to make my own custom compound elements, or to make simple ready to use elements like a drop field with all the USA States already prepopulated. Is making this easier/clearer a design goal for your framework? Also what are your plans for constraints and error messages. Another thing I am wondering about are you plans for serializing the elements. H::W is very tightly intergrated with each element, so it's not easy to create different renderings of a element. At least I found so. What I am driving at is if the rendering system was seperated it could be possible to render a form into different styles, like html forms or xforms. But maybe this isn't a goal for you. Just thinking. --john > > _______________________________________________ > Html-widget mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rawmode.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-widget > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Html-widget mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rawmode.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-widget
