[TYPO3-project-formidable] Skins: My renderlet wants a new dress

Jerome Schneider j.schneider at ameos.com
Wed Jul 4 10:45:26 CEST 2007


Maybe isn't this such a good idea.

After further research, it has proven to be difficult if not impossible 
to ensure unobtrusive/consistent/efficient/nice form input designs :(

if you have ideas, the're welcome.

Jerome


Jerome Schneider a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> We implemented in latest SVN rev (71) an *experimental* concept of skins 
> appliable to renderlets, for a nice look out-of-the-box, pursuing the 
> concept of RAD.
> 
> You can have a preview here: 
> http://www.ameos.com/formidable/features/skins.html
> 
> It works quite well as-is. The main idea is that a skin is a manifest 
> referencing resources, like stylesheets, javascript, images, 
> HTML-templates, whatever ...
> 
> For the moment, we have only one skin named bigblue, defining a look 
> only for the renderlet:BUTTON ( whereas a skin may define looks for all 
> renderlets )
> 
> I think it would be cool to have some sets of skins like bigblue, 
> bigorange, bigred, tinyblue, tinyclear, ... to fit the needs of most 
> peoples.
> 
> Skins can also be included in your extensions, let's say, to re-usably 
> alter the way renderlets are rendered for all your own projects with 
> formidable.
> 
> 2 questions there:
>  -> is it worth the effort ? would you need this ?
>  -> who would like to help producing nice xhtml+css skins for form 
> elements ?
> 
> Please feedback !
> Jerome Schneider


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