uPortal + FSS = awesome

[Jacob Farber]

Gary, this looks fantastic. I'm very happy to see where you've taken
things. I would be happy to lend a hand wherever I can, either for code
review or how to address issue #1 (something of interest might be Facebook's
"smart iframes")
Jacob


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Gary Thompson <gary at unicon.net> wrote:

> Now that the Fluid daily build pulls from the uPortal trunk, you can see
> what has been done there:
>
> http://build.fluidproject.org/uPortal
>
> http://build.fluidproject.org/uPortal/media/skins/universality/common/css/fluid/fluid.fss.min.css
>
> http://build.fluidproject.org/uPortal/media/skins/universality/common/css/fluid/fluid.layout.min.css
>
> http://build.fluidproject.org/uPortal/media/skins/universality/uportal3/fluid.theme.uportal3.min.css
>
> The CSS and JS files are all minimized, so you may need access to the
> source files to really make sense of them.
>
> As a summary:
>
> 1. FSS is linked to in the head of the portal document
> 2. The portal layout was converted to use FSS divs for layout instead of
> tables
> 3. The portal main navigation was converted to use FSS tabs
> 4. I had to extend/modify fluid.layout.css to achieve the portal layout
> 5. The default skin "uportal3" was completely re-written based off of the
> mist theme and should generally comply with FSS themes
>
> Still to be done:
>
> 1. Need a solution for portlet content that is larger than its parent
> container.
> Initially, setting overflow to scroll may be the best start, but it would
> be great to have a way for institutions to specify that a portlet (and thus
> its parent container - i.e. column) force to the portlet content width even
> though it might otherwise exceed the parent container width.  You can see
> the effect if you reduce the width of your browser window on either the
> admin or student welcome tab - eventually the image in the "XX welcome
> portlet" exceeds the width of its portlet container and bleeds out into the
> next column.  Some of the burden will have to fall on institutions to update
> their content accordingly, but for greatest 3.1 adoption, it would be good
> to have something to offer as a solution.
>
> 2. Verify the integrity of the uportal3 theme
> It got rather heated and hairy last week to get things finished.  I am not
> sure that everything is as clean and good as it could be.  I know for sure
> that I did not wrap back around and update the theme color schema.   A code
> review of the uportal3 theme CSS would be fantastic.
>
> 3. Determine if there is anything from the uPortal FSS implementation that
> should be folded back into FSS for the next release.
> There is a concept of widget in FSS that might map directly to portlet in
> uPortal.  There is a concept of a block in uPortal that might map to a
> widget or similar in FSS.  There are probably others.
>
> 4. Implement UI Options.
> I plan on including a link labeled My Preferences in the Customize My
> Portal links (in the right sidebar when logged in) that invokes UI Options.
>  I had hoped to add that in for the 3.1 release, but didn't get to it, and
> am not sure of it being default when UI Options is still considered Beta.
>
> -Gary
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Jacob Farber
University of Toronto - ATRC
Tel: (416) 946-3002
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