life into plone design mailinglist / documentation todo list for 2.0

hey people

i really have no idea who is signed up on this mailinglist - not much, i 
assume, since this list was rather dead.

so i hope this is the first mail which will bring some life into this 
list ;)

a *big* part of plone, is its ui. as most people know, we aim at 
accessibility, flexiblity and sementical correctness. this isn't too 
easy since flexibility and semantical correcness aren't directly related 
;) (see http://csszengarden.com/ - a disaster...) however, doing stuff 
is one thing, but we need some things now that go partially further 
developing. documentation. (god, i sound *so* old right now)

as we all know, people aren't too educated when it comes to css and nice 
xhtml markup. we need docs and links that explain them how they create 
and use the stuff correctly, and why they should do that. we partially 
started with that but we're far away from beeing ready.

   * we need a "handbook for blind/visually handicapped people". jodok 
said they have made a checklist where problems for jaws are. i think 
this list should be included, and better readers should be recommended 
(since jaws is REALLY a pita... you know IE). (rather something for tom, 
right?)

   * i need to document the tableless layout, and finish the layout 
experiments on http://eaon.niij.org/layout_experiments/ (might be slow, 
or not available - should be online after 10am CET)

   * find a resource for philosophical explanation of webstandards 
(creative commons would be nice) and stuff like "don't depend on 
javascript" or create a new one (and then, i don't think it shouldn't be 
too plone specific, because contribution to the webstandard community is 
important too - you know, we use their stuff too ;))

   * collect workarounds for possible customisation woes (like the 
#portal-top IE Thing, or the Netscape 6.2 footer)

   * documentation on parts like "how do i create a portlet" "document 
views in 2.0" or "plone 2 forms" - with explanation why it looks like that.

most of that should/will go into the infamous ui cookbook 
http://plone.org/development/current/projects/ThePlone2UICookbook

did i forget anything?

best regards
michael

PS: limi, and the other two guys in the cc, if you're not subscribed to 
plone-design, http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-design 
go there and do that now please ;)

PPS: could someone please hook that site up gmane? remember we want to 
move as much ui related questions from -users and -developers to -design
-- 
niij° <http://niij.org/>



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