Thanks Taher. I agree with you, I'll keep your points in mind while review.
Thanks & Regards -- Deepak Dixit www.hotwaxsystems.com www.hotwax.co On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Taher Alkhateeb <slidingfilame...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hmmmm, all good points Deepak. I will try to explain my point of view > more thoroughly. > > Essentially there are only certain locations in the ecommerce > component that require bling bling and fancy UI, and even some of > those can be done through Macros for the benefit of using them > elsewhere in the framework. So perhaps maybe we should think of the > items below in implementing what is proposed in this thread: > - If the feature is easy and straight forward, then the widget > implementation can be pure. > - If the feature is difficult, then it depends: > - is it worth introducing in other components? If yes, it's better > to enhance the widget system by having XML translation to freemarker > macros > - is it specific to the e-commerce component and not reusable > elsewhere? Then yeah fine drop down to <platform-specific ...> and do > your thing > > The above approach might give us some advantages like: > - Reducing complexity: As it stands, I find the e-commerce component > to be one of the most challenging components to maintain and develop > because of the handcrafted interface > - Reuse: If we are apply the implementation through macros then we can > reuse everything in themes which means other components gain value > automatically. > - Reducing fragmentation: Having e-commerce behave one way and other > components behave another way is an added layer of complexity that can > be avoided if we work at the underlying widget infrastructure level. > > Overall, good initiative. I'm always attracted first and foremost to > DRY so whenever people make suggestions for improvement the automatic > first thought in my mind is ... well how can we unify that everywhere. > > Cheers > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Deepak Dixit > <deepak.di...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > > Hi Taher, > > > > Here we are talking about ecommerce, and ecommerce website should be > fancy > > and user friendly. To achieve this developer/designer should have free > hand > > to design this. > > > > Its hard to customize ecommerce using form widget, developer should have > > freedom to design ecommerce UX as per need. > > > > > > Thanks & Regards > > -- > > Deepak Dixit > > www.hotwaxsystems.com > > www.hotwax.co > > > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Taher Alkhateeb > > <slidingfilame...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I believe an attempt like this should be architectually constrained to > the > >> themes only especially given our recent changes. So work here should be > on > >> the FTL macros level in themes, not in widgets in the ecommerce > component. > >> This would probably be the cleanest solution IMHO. > >> > >> On Sep 23, 2017 11:53 AM, "Nitish Mishra" > >> <nitish.mis...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > >> > >> Nice Idea Mayank, > >> > >> We can firstly move forward with integrating bootstrap framework for > >> e-commerce website and later we can proceed with UI improvements and > >> markup > >> changes. > >> > >> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Deepak Dixit < > >> deepak.di...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > >> > >> > Nice Idea Mayank, > >> > > >> > I started markup cleanup effort for ecommerce long time ago, I did > some > >> > cleanup, Its good idea to change ecommerce markup and used bootstrap > >> > defined ux pattern. > >> > > >> > It will allow us to create fancy demo ecommerce application. I think > we > >> > need to add some extra css to add bootstrap feel for form widget > >> > generated > >> > markup for ecommrece. > >> > > >> > +1 from my side and I'll be available for discussion and > co-ordination. > >> > > >> > Thanks & Regards > >> > -- > >> > Deepak Dixit > >> > www.hotwaxsystems.com > >> > www.hotwax.co > >> > > >> > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Mayank Lambhate <mayank.lambhate@ > >> > hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >> Hello, > >> >> > >> >> The E-Commerce website in OFBiz currently contains custom styling for > >> >> the > >> >> UI. We are planning to use the bootstrap framework so that the UI > would > >> >> be > >> >> more arranged and user-friendly. Also, we would require changing the > >> >> markup > >> >> accordingly. > >> >> > >> >> Let us know your thoughts. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks and regards, > >> >> > >> >> *Mayank Lambhate* | Enterprise Software Engineer > >> >> HotWax Systems <http://www.hotwaxsystems.com/> > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> > >> *Thanks and Regards* > >> > >> *Nitish Mishra* | Enterprise Software Engineer > >> HotWax Systems <http://www.hotwaxsystems.com/> > >> > >> > > >
