[CLD] A quick start at a template page for the CLD

[Marc Battyani]

"Pierre-François Gomez" <pef.gomez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Attached is a rework of the generated html.
>
> The idea has already been expressed on this list (I don't remember by
> whom) but it would be nice if we could have something we could
> collaboratively hack on for the CLD layout.
>
> Unfortunately, doing this from the current generated html is a
> pain. I'm still waiting for my gecko-based brain implant but in the
> mean time, I thought I would clean it up manually.

OK, I've looked at your HTML source proposal and I must admit that is it much much better
than my automatic generated one. In fact I find it really clean. :)

> This is not finished (I'm still missing the filter box and the buttons
> to add notes and comments) but I'm running out of time for today so I
> thought I'd post it as it is now, so that you get a feel of where I'm
> headed.
>
> Also included is a suggestion to make the layout less "heavy" :
> there's 3 buttons to switch between the "kind of things", "sub tags"
> and "last modified" views.

I've seen that. I think it's a good idea but I prefer on/off panes (like add a comment)
rather than a tab pane so that if somebody wants to have all expanded on one page like
now, it's possible. I think the best way would be to make this a user preference.

> Some notes on what I reworked :
> - indentation :)
> - getting rid of the superfluous tables and brs
> - moving a lot of the "style=" information to the css
>   - for this point, I didn't touch linkit.css at all : I just added
>     the style in a new lib/cld.css
> - moved all the javascript into lib/cld.js
> - using lists in the places where they make a lot more sense than
>   a succession of div or p blocks.
>   Really, those can be very handy and easily concealed using css, but
>   I think that being lispers, you'll be easily convinced of using
>   lists :)

Sure ;-)

> No doubt there's still a lot of cleanup to do, and the page is still
> clutterred with sample data but I think it is a good start toward
> producing a template on which we could work on.
>
> What do you think ?

I find it pretty cool! Have you tested it with the major browsers ?
As soon as you have a "final" version I will switch to it.

Marc