uPortal + FSS = awesome

[Justin]

Hi Gary,

The site looks great.

I am noticing a bunch of jQuery is not a function errors though. Not  
sure if this is something wrong with our build or if you haven't  
gotten to that part yet.

Thanks
Justin


On 25-Feb-09, at 3:47 PM, Gary Thompson 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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