Re: Re: Re: life into plone design mailinglist / documentation todo list for 2.0

Tom Croucher wrote:
> I reckon I can manage at least 3 hours a week not
> much I know, but I am pretty busy right now. If we
> can work out a focus and more particularly a
> timeline with deadlines then we can get on. I
> suggest we start with a CSS reference listing and
> explaining what every class, id (including generated
> ones like portal tabs) and other selectors do. At
> least that way people proficient in CSS can quickly
> get down and dirty into the Plone CSS. 

+1

> Next we need
> to document what hack we use and standardize them so
> people are using the same methods throughout. For
> example I don't want people using FIR just because
> they know we use image replacement.

i agree. i think we need to set up especially the image replacement
stuff quite detailed, because everywhere you use it, it's a bit
different, and you can save huge loads of code in doing it differently
for tabs and portlet headings ;)

> More over as Michael said as a long term goal I
> would like to sciphen off classes which need bug
> fixes, maybe do them right (TM) in plone.css but
> then override them in ploneBrowserFix.css or
> something. That would make it easy to remove non
> nice hacks once the browsers fix stuff.

which means remove ploneIEFixes.css too, and use the * html hack for ie
specific fixes. i think thats quite a good idea, and should be part of
the css rewrite in 2.1.

interesting would be to try if we could use generated content for image
replacement in opera (since it's the only browser that supports it atm).
that'd really rock (for accessibility too), and it's not a "hack" anymore.

> Anyone else got suggestions for what we could/should
> be doing. How long and when.

i just would like to know how exactly it should look - more a technical
documentation or with philisophical things too (why this looks like it
does, why this is good, etc.)

> Oh and well done, I have had more than a few "we
> love the new skinning" comments.

:)

michael

PS: damn i forgot to include plone-design when i sent the email the 
first time :/
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