Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Templates class, CSS support and print view support

[Andy Mayer]

> Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) support:
> I am adding a way for template sets and apps to more easily and
> consistantly support CSS.

I am new to phpgw, but I doubt the value of having themes control 
different style sheets for the same template set.

My preference would be that the designer makes the visual/HTML design 
in the template files and that's the end of it; no different colour 
themes or selectable CSS options. If he chooses to use CSS to implement 
his design, then it should be coded in the head.tpl of the template and 
the user is then forced to use the gui exactly as the designer designed 
it. Other specific user requirements (eg. colour changes, browser 
compatibility issues) should be dealt with by designing a completely 
different template set to specificially suit those requirements.

>From a web-interface perspective, it's seems mad to me that a template 
should be designed, then only to be messed up by the possibility of 
changing CSS and themes colours later on. Also, the overhead of 
supporting this in the visual design means that we only end up with 
lame templates that try to do everything but end up looking second-rate 
and not actualy adding much value.

Does that make sense?

Look at a template set here that uses a "hard coded CSS" and doesn't 
support themes:

http://www.andymayer.net/screen.jpg

Just my 2$

Andy Mayer
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