FLUID-4525: Update of simplifying fat panel

[Antranig Basman]

Hi Cindy - it is great that you have got so far with this 
implementation. Good luck with resolving the remaining rendering bugs 
tomorrow. Unfortunately I don't think this current plain sailing can be 
completely guaranteed - since it is virtually certain that on some 
version of IE that this "jQueryless" strategy will break.

To recall Colin's remarks from our meeting last week, I think we are 
prepared to "soft-pedal" IE6 and IE7 compatibility issues for now, 
pending an evaluation of the needs of our userbase and the state of our 
resources. However, it would be worthwhile to try your current "free 'n 
easy" implementation with IE9 at least to see if it explodes horribly.

As Colin remarked, "this is not policy" but currently it looks like we 
see our way to thorough testing on IE8 and IE9 with at least the 
potential to have to revive earlier versions depending on conditions.

Looking forward to the final destruction of the "swappedFatPanelMapping",
Boz

PS "fluid.uiOptoins.renderUIOptions" is an odd name, and doesn't really 
express its binding to the FatPanel configuration. Perhaps it would be a 
good opportunity to continue the namespace rationalisation we started 
before the release and create a fluid.uiOptions.fatPanel namespace to 
mirror the other two configurations?

One route to making the configurations even more similar is to simply 
modify the type of "uiOptionsLoader" in the standard "inline" hierarchy. 
If it can be made to take responsibility for iframe loading and 
rendering as well as just standard template loading, and delay the 
firing of its "onUIOptionsTemplateReady" event until all this is done, 
we could keep the overall "inline" arrangement and therefore save on 
even the remainder of "swappedFatPanelMapping".

This is just a suggestion and it may not prove to be practical, but I 
think it is worth a try

On 24/10/2011 13:46, Li, Cindy wrote:
> Hi Antranig,
>
> The issue with the incorrect iframe document object that was passed into renderer has been resolved. The current status is that the UI Options interface is successfully rendered into iFrame by using the jQuery and infusion from the outer world although the UIO interface is not fully correct yet with all the settings showing up in one tab rather than being properly distributed to each tab. But it's good that the rendering part that we had expected the difficulty on is almost done. :) BTW, it's a lovely surprise that even if the entire jQuery inclusion, not only infusion, has been removed from iFrame, the rendering is still able to be performed.
>
> I will continue looking into the tab issue tomorrow and afterwards would be utilizing the uiEnhancer from the main page to manipulate both inner and outer worlds.
>
> Here's the github branch with the latest code: https://github.com/cindyli/infusion/tree/FLUID-4525
>
> Cheers
>
> Cindy