Yes, the UI Manager allows you to skin your application. I believe the it was created before CSS was so popular. -- Humberto
> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Mainguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:05 PM > To: Turbine Users List > Subject: RE: UI Manager and Skins > > > I'll take a stab at this. The UI manager appears to be for, > in theory, > skinning your presentation. I.E. if you want to change your > forground/background/font-size/images you can do it via the > config file > instead of in a Cascading Style Shee or the HTML. That > having been said, I > haven't really delved too deeply into it and it seems like > it's basically > the same thing as a CSS except the output ends up in your > HTML instead of > stripped out into another file. Actually, I'd liken it to > server side CSS > or something like XSL. Using a tool like that has advantages and > disadvantages and I'll give you my opinion on those. > > Advantages: > Consolidates User Interface (UI) look and feel data to a > central location > Allows UI data to be rolled directly into HTML without > recoding in 100 > different places > Potentially obviates CSS incompatibilities between browser > and seperate > file caching issues > > Disadvantages: > Look and feel is in a different place and in a different format from > almost all other web stuff > Disallows caching of look and feel (LAF) data on the client > Not terribly well documented (I haven't seen any, but, I > haven't really > looked) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Rafuse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:27 PM > > To: Turbine User Mailing List; TDK User List > > Subject: UI Manager and Skins > > > > > > Can anyone provide a good explanation of: > > > > 1) What does UI mean? > > 2) What is the UIManager's purpose (it seems to manage html > elements, > > but a more detailed explanation would be great) > > 3) What are considered UI elements ? > > 3) How do skins work? ie. What is a skin? Are they loaded > for each page? > > What is the directory hierarchy for skins? > > > > Thanks alot, > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
