[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: JBPTL-17: Theme API food for thought II
I would steer away from a layout strategy that depended on CSS positioning. Browser support for CSS-2 positioning is not universally consistent and even when the browser fully supports the standard, there are still page rendering anomalies. I find this to be a good guideline to follow for working with CSS. The more complex the CSS, the slower pages are rendered and the more chance there is that your styles will break. I have adopted a page design strategy that combines layout tables and CSS. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3874248#3874248 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=postingmode=replyp=3874248 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: JBPTL-17: Theme API food for thought
I have added the capability to define portal properties in portal.xml file and now the layout and theme are lookup up in the property map so it is possible to set the layout per portal. for instance in default-portal.xml : |... |portal-namedefault/portal-name |properties | !-- Set the layout for the default portal -- | property | nameorg.jboss.portal.layout/name | valuenodesk/value | /property |/properties |... | View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3873219#3873219 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=postingmode=replyp=3873219 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: JBPTL-17: Theme API food for thought
I have added the context path switch when dispatching the layout. So the layout can use req.getContextPath() to get the context path of the war file in which it is. It is similar to what the portlet spec defines for portlet components. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3873042#3873042 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=postingmode=replyp=3873042 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: JBPTL-17: Theme API food for thought
I looked at it, so actually there are two separate things : | * layout : it is what the portal dispatch to | * theme : it uses a set of JSP tags to output markup | so at the end, the layout can output its own markup or can delegate to the theme and renderers right ? I want to keep the idea that the layout can choose between using custom markup or delegating to theme for integration purpose. One nice thing with renderers is to introduce an AbstractFactory to give the capability to get a set of renderers based on the markup. Of course speaking of the future. mholzner wrote : I commited a first draft of the new feature today. | don't go crazy, it's still very early on, but here is the general idea, and my motivations: | | themes, layouts, skins , branding . they all have a lot in common, in fact : I don't know where one ends and the other one begins. So I tried to come up with the most flexible approach. | | I really like the clean separation of duties that is outlined in css zengarden (http://www.csszengarden.com/) . It separates content from the rest, and gives the web designer the most power over the look and feel. | You can find a sample app attached to the JIRA issue (JBTL-17) | | So here is what a typical portal request looks like: | * the portal determines the portal page to render, and calls the portlet container for each portlet on that page | * once the portlet content is rendered, the theme takes over | * themes are split into three major components: a layout, a theme, and a render set | * a layout is a JSP or a Servlet that the portal can request dispatch to. It is the piece that creates the root tag of the response (like HTML) | * in case of a jsp. there are tags to render a region of the page, or a particular portlet, and one to inject the theme | * in case of a servlet, there is an API to get the same task done (the same API the tags are using) | * the region tag gets the list of results containing the rendered portlet content for the portlets on that page region. It then determines the render set for the current content type. | * a render set is a collection of classes that implement a defined interface | * there are 4 renderer interfaces in a render set (region, portlet window, decoration, and portlet content) | * the theme is a set of css, js, and binary files. When the theme tag is injecting the theme content, it actually injects link and script tags | * the layout, the renderer set and the theme all work together to get the final markup. | * There are some dependencies between all of them, but for now there are no rules: each piece can be switched independently | | I'll be providing more examples in the next days | | themes are in core/src/main/org/jboss/portal/core/theme/* View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3873044#3873044 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=postingmode=replyp=3873044 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: JBPTL-17: Theme API food for thought
Martin, will the new examples have the theme display portlets within it? The zengarden app, only shows the zengarden page. It does not display within IE, but you knew that already. ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3873077#3873077 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=postingmode=replyp=3873077 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: JBPTL-17: Theme API food for thought
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Martin, will the new examples have the theme display portlets within it? | | The zengarden app, only shows the zengarden page. It does not display within IE, but you knew that already. ;-) depends on what you consider theme display portlets. the zengarden app contains a set of portlets that work together with the theme. I beliefe a set of portlets to list the available themes and layouts, that let the user choose one, would be helpful to understand the concepts better I'll add those View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3873084#3873084 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=postingmode=replyp=3873084 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: JBPTL-17: Theme API food for thought
I may be missing something, but all I see is a flat html page in the zengarden app. I see the portlets defined in -pages.xml, -instances.xml, and portlet.xml, but nothing seems to show aside from the main window. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3873087#3873087 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=postingmode=replyp=3873087 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: JBPTL-17: Theme API food for thought II
Sounds too good :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3872976#3872976 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=postingmode=replyp=3872976 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
