[jira] Commented: (FELIX-1959) Move towards unified L&F and extended branding support

["Felix Meschberger (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Felix Meschberger commented on FELIX-1959:
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Cool. Thanks alot.

>From my point of view, this is definitely worth pursuing !

JQueryUI: We do not have any concrete plans but if you provide a patch to the current web console, which includes JQuery UI, we will definitely include it.

> Move towards unified L&F and extended branding support
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-1959
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1959
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Web Console
>            Reporter: Valentin Valchev
>            Assignee: Carsten Ziegeler
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: jqueryui-vs-default-lnf.png, tb6.jar, tb6_1.0.1.jar
>
>
> Currently the Web Console uses heavily on the JQuery framework. Using a unified JavaScript framework simplifies development of all plugins and unifies the used approach.
> However, when talking about visual styling, there are number of differences because each plugin developer uses own styles.
> My suggestion is to adopt the JQuery UI . The benefits of using it as unified widget/css framework are:
> - no time to spend on writing widgets already in the library
> - clean CSS visual styling
> - easy way to change the L&F by changing the theme (extended branding support!)
> - improved cross-browser support (JQuery UI takes care of CSS differences)
> Using the JQuery UI framework the developer shouldn't care about color but only for layout - components position; and for data being displayed.
> To illustrate the benefits I've saved the "Log Service" page, modified it to use JQuery UI, took screen-shot, modified the theme CSS only, and again took screen-shot, and finally added the original L&F for reference, so you can easily compare the result.
> The attached image contains the combined screen-shots.
> "

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