BluePrint for CSS

We have moved to a full page design to allow maximal screen real estate to be available for list views & data entry. Ours is based on:

• ​http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-full-page.htm
• This was inspired by the work done on Sahana PHP: ​http://demo.respere.com/dnn/
• Link on doing something similar with the default web2py menu: ​http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/ecffcd0427af0fec

The logo font is Brush Script.

Q: Should we migrate to ​BlueTrip?
A: Probably not as their value isn't proven.

The CSS could still do with some cleaning up to remove unused styles.

CSS can be previewed in different browsers, however no interaction is possible:

• ​http://browsershots.org/
• IE only: ​http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/

Original Sahana CSS documented here: DeveloperGuidelinesCSS

Maximal usability ideas:

• ​http://www.alistapart.com/articles/progressiveenhancementwithcss

HTML5 Cross-browser polyfills:

• ​https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-browser-Polyfills

Multiple Theme Support

See: Projects/Design/SahanaEdenTheme

Menus

BluePrintMenu

Alternative layouts

We should include alternate layouts which different views can inherit from (common areas included into these to be DRY):

• Site home & Module homes act as portals, which require a more complex layout, such as:
  • 3 columns: ​http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-3-column.htm
  • Stackable: ​http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-stacked-columns.htm

Q: How to {{include}} content into multiple areas? (How is it done with the JPolite app?)

Can use LOAD to import a component into an area of a webpage. Updates to this component happen independently to the rest of the page:

• ​http://www.web2py.com/AlterEgo/default/show/252

Right-to-Left theme

We already have a simple:

body {
    direction: rtl;
}

This is currently set using the Theme.

We could look at setting this based on a lookup of the current locale.

Print View

Provide a view which allows for better Printing

• CSS sufficient? (media=print)

Browsers don't print pages in identical ways...if this is key, need to use PDF (like for format=ocr).

Print on a Map

Mobile View

Provide a cut-down version for use on low-screensize, low-bandwidth devices, such as Mobiles.

• BluePrint/Mobile/Portal

Current Issues

Are there any big ones?

• Main page content displays well as text reflows due to nice column layout
• Top-menu works fine, but fixed-width means a lot of scrolling (could use improvement, but hard to fix)
  • GIS Catalogue Toolbar also needs scrolling - ugly, but usable
• dataTables work but need some scrolling (not sure this is possible to work around & seems OK)