Carsten and all,
Here are my comments and questions to your responses. The original document
that Carsten marked up is attached.
2. Fonts
I agree with your suggestion that we create a separate section for messages.
For error, status, warning, alert, and info. I'll make the modifications to
the document.
I also think it makes sense to add two more font classes.
wsia-font-positive and wsia-font-negative. This is especially useful in
financial related portlets. Stock prices representing up tick and down
ticks is one example.
4. Sections
I would argue that wsia-section-background and wsia-section-text are not
needed. wsia-section should be used to set the background styles and font
information. I think this should be a general rule applied to all wsia
defined classes. The base class (higher level class) should control
background and font style types of settings. No?
5. Forms
Won't a single wsia-form-label suffice? Do we need to provide four
different control label classes? Do you have some use cases where these
would be appropriate?
6. Menus
- Can you describe wsia-menu-description and wsia-menu-caption in some more
detail?
- Can't background styles be set in the higher level class for menus? For
example wsia-menu-item can set style attributes for background thus
defeating the need for a wsia-menu-item-background class?
7. Portal
I'm in favor of removing the portlet classes. The section classes should be
able to replace portlet classes.
The idea of having a separate background dependent on mode is an interesting
concept. Do we provide a wsia-section-mode-background class for each
possible mode? What about proprietary modes that are undefined by
WSIA-WSRP? Maybe defining edit and config background classes would suffice
for the first WSRP release. Thoughts?
8. It would be useful to supply a simple palette of sixteen (or less)
colors. Example:
wsia-color1...wsia-color16
wsia-background-color1...wsia-background-color16
wsia-border-color1...wsia-background-color16
These colors will cover the cases that other classes can't handle. One use
case is data represented in a tabular format using different color rows
dependent on the information being shown such as sales figures represented
by region, each region's figures in a different color. This goes beyond a
simple alternating color scheme.
9. Other
Most of these questions in section 9 are still unanswered. Anybody have any
input on these classes? If not I'll remove them for this release.
Thanks,
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carsten Leue" <>
To: "WSRP" <>; "Chris Braun"
<>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 8:29 AM
Subject: [wsrp][markup]
Here are some more comments to proposed CSS styles.
Maybe we can discuss them in the next markup call.
(See attached file: CSS-Rev6.zip)
Best regards
Carsten Leue
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Dr. Carsten Leue
Dept.8288, IBM Laboratory B鐽lingen , Germany
Tel.: +49-7031-16-4603, Fax: +49-7031-16-4401
