I think you might actually have a good point here - it might be nice to have a "Wicket Widgets" project strictly for custom widgets. It would be a nice way to organize extra widgets.
On 6/14/06, Ayodeji Aladejebi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know of Wicket Extensions and Wicket Stuff etc but I look forward to > Wicket Widgets Stuff where users can donate all sorts of resuable widgets to > wicket community that carry all sorts of behaviors needed to enrich Web user > experience > > As an example, i have been trying to create Wicket Menu bar component by > trying to reduce my effort to something close to Swing > > I am not talking of something like echo2 now, I am talking of all those > common stuffs in web development packaged in a cross browser reusable wicket > components. > > MenuBar bar = new MenuBar("web-app-menu", ...) > > MenuBar will be a customizable markupcontainer that will have vertical drop > down capabilities > Menus and MenuItem will simply be Wicket Links instances. > > My major headache started when i realized how horrible CSS can be across IE > breeds and Mozilla and other browsers, IE expecially so i spent more time > trying to sort out making cross browser CSS vertical menus for my wicket > project. Now that should not be because for me if wicket were to fulfil its > vision, developers should spend more time with Java than cracking thier > heads on how to do common stuffs with CSS or Javascript. > > Therefore I think encouraging widgets contribution will also be fine. I am > not a cross browser CSS expert but there a lot out there willing to donate > reusable CSS codes for creating common widgets on the browser > > Scrolling > MenuBar > etc... > > > > Anyway for me, it boils down to one thing, > I am trying to create MenuBar, Menu and MenuItem for my project and i need > cross browser CSS for vertical drop down menu, > > Something like this > <div wicket:id="MenuBar" class="menubar"> > <ul> > <li wicket:id="Menu"><a wicket:id="MenuItem"></a></li> > <li wicket:id="MenuSeperator"></li> > <li wicket:id="Menu"><a wicket:id="MenuItem"><img > wicket:id="MenuImage"></img></a></li> > </ul> > </div> > > But i am scared of the CSS hell out there and i dont even know where to > start digging for good cross browser CSS to use for this, so please who has > a reference to the CSS library that can make this life easy > > Thanks :) > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > > > _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user