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Subject: Re: [wsrp][wsrp-markup] FW: WSRP CSS Questions
Intertwined with <rt/> Rich Thompson "Kropp, Alan" <Alan.Kropp@vignette.com> 03/05/2003 02:24 PM To: Rich Thompson/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, Chris Braun <cbraun@novell.com> cc: "'wsrp-markup@lists.oasis-open.org'" <wsrp-markup@lists.oasis-open.org> Subject: [wsrp][wsrp-markup] FW: WSRP CSS Questions Rich and Chris, Here are some rather detailed questions regarding the CSS classes that a UI engineer here forwarded to me. I don't know whether we have answers to some/all of these at this time, and perhaps that needs to wait for the wsrp-markup group to reconvene? Let me know how we should proceed, thanks. Alan -- Here are some questions/comments about the CSS classes for the WSRP group: 1- The 'portlet-section-header' class implies 2 mutually exclusive uses; as the formatting for the header row of a table and as a section header. In the case of the table header row it will be very common that the portal will specify a background-color, but then the color would show up for the section headers where it is not commonly desired. Is this an indented behavior? <rt>From my CSS experience, the difference between these two could exploit the difference in tags. For the header row of a table, the class should be on a <tr> while I would expect it on tags such as <div> or <td> for section headers</rt> 2- The 'portlet-section-footer' class has the same problem as #1. 3- How do the classes 'portlet-form-input-field' and 'portlet-form-field' differ? <rt>portlet-form-field has a description that says "Text for a field (not input field, e.g. checkboxes, etc)" so I would say it applies to radio buttons, checkboxes, etc</rt> 4- What is a "context dependent action icon" as mentioned in the description of the 'portlet-icon-label' class? <rt>I think this is a reference to icons like one often sees on toolbars these days. They only appear when appropriate, but share a common style for text, etc</rt> 5- There is no provision in the classes for a sorted column header. <rt>Do you want to propose an addition to the table in 10.5.4?</rt> 6- It is fairly common to have multiple 'special' rows within a table of data. It would be useful to have some 'special' row color classes. <rt>Are you suggesting adding portlet-section-rowType1 to portlet-section-rowType5 or so?</rt> 7- There are no provisions for the formatting of navigation trails within the portlet's views. <rt>agreed</rt> 8- The specified classes will require the portlet HTML to have many class declarations. It would be better to use descendant classes to simplify the HTML and reduce the file size. <rt>Not sure what exactly is meant here. Descendant classes still work</rt> 9- It is very surprising that the <a> tag is not customizable via the WSRP classes. In web applications it is very common to customize anchors so that they do not have a 'visited' color. It is also common to use css classes to control the hover behavior of the links to give a more interactive experience. <rt>The comment in the spec is that base CSS already has .hover, etc support and therefore explicit classes are not needed at the WSRP level.</rt> 10- It would be very useful to have a reference stylesheet and sample portlet HTML that could be used as an example for development and testing. <rt>agreed ... it seems like that has been proposed, but no one has agreed to actually produce one.</rt> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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