[Dev] Module stylesheets

[Henrik Frisk]

Hi all,

Jamie Bullock <jb at integralive.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I thought I'd raise an idea here to breathe a bit of life into the list!
> 
> I want to just follow on from a discussion I've been having with Steve
> Sinclair off-list. Basically, in several Integra meetings the issue of
> how we should treat the appearance of GUI modules has been raised. The
> debate has largely been oriented around whether or not we should store
> the height, width, colour etc. of GUI modules as part of their module
> definition (in the database and XML)...
> 
> One thing that occurs to me (and I think Henrik F touched on this
> before), is that each module collection should have an associated
> stylesheet. So in the module definition we don't store any information
> about the visual appearance of modules. Instead, we work on the basis
> that a given module host is responsible for visual appearance and
> layout, with the option of incorporating stylesheet information that is
> associated with a given collection.
> 
> I would argue for this since the separation of style and content seems
> very sensible to me. The obvious styling mechanism to me seems to be
> XSL/XSLT, and think also previously suggested this (albeit for a
> slightly different purpose).
> 
> Anyone got any thoughts on this?
> 
I think this is a very good idea!

/Henrik F