-----Original Message----- From: Barry A. Warsaw
"CP" == Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org> writes: CP> I would make only one major recommendations... drop all the CP> style information out of the tags, and put it in a style CP> sheet. Most of the stuff you're doing, especially colors CP> would be better that way. Then you could actually ship 3-4 CP> style sheets with different colors on them to people :-) Also, CP> it reduces the amount of code in the page A LOT.
Don't forget though, that we have to support older browsers. I think there are list admins with users still using e.g. NS 3. This stuff must work for them too.
That's correct. And even though (as someone else said) the pages would still work on older browsers if the style sheets are done correctly, there is still one major stumbling block to style sheets: the fact that they are not implimented completely correctly in ANY browser. I've found several problems with the way IE5 implements style sheets, and Netscrape's style sheet support is worthless. Nonetheless, I'll set up a second mockup using style sheets and see how it works out. I'll let you all know when it's ready.
As far as making it so that it is easy to change the colors to match your site, there are two options. Style sheets is certainly a good way to do that. But the other option is to have option variables set for the colors and have the "COLOR=" parts of the HTMl file generated by the Python code which can insert the contents of the color preferences variables. --Dan
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