Separation of presentation and logic could take more effort due to which we had to defer it in the last release.<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
What about opening a project on the forge?</blockquote><div><br>This is a good option. <br><br>@Alan: Thanks for the heads-up start. <br><br>Good luck.<br><br>Regards,<br>Prasad<br>vtiger Team<br></div><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/24/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carlo Beschi</b> <<a href="mailto:carloz@gnumerica.org">carloz@gnumerica.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Alan,<br> <br> here comes one more positive feedback ;-)<br> <br> I'll test your version in a few days and possibly provide some more<br> detailed info, anyway the choice of getting rid of the nested tables<br> ;.-) and move towards a clearer separation of the presentation layer is<br>
... the choice :-)<br> <br> I did the same, on a smaller scale, on our internal version of 5.0.4,<br> for the Login screen (I had to rewrite it, so it simply came more handy<br> to use css and divs instead of tables).<br>
<br> I can allocate some of my time, and of one of my mates at our company,<br> in the next weeks, to test the code and help you out.<br> <br> What about opening a project on the forge?<br> <br> Carlo<br> <br> <br> Alan Lord (News) ha scritto:<br>
<br>> On 24/09/09 08:21, Steven Sher wrote:<br> >> I also had to try customise our customer portal to better suit our company, and found it rather complicated to get what we wanted, so thanks for all your work, I am sure it's going to save a lot of other people time/energy.<br>
><br> > Thanks Steve,<br> ><br> > I hope my OP wasn't misleading though, perhaps I could have been a bit<br> > clearer.<br> ><br> > I'd really like feedback on what I've done so far. This isn't, what I<br>
> consider, finished. There are some areas where the code can be cleaned<br> > up and still some bugs which cause it to fail W3C validation tests<br> > (mainly from some of the Javascript I think).<br> ><br> > What I am really interested to see is if this rework is actually a<br>
> worthwhile activity and I am on the right track; although the 3 comments<br> > so far seem to confirm the need for a clean up certainly.<br> ><br> > Although I haven't really touched much of the actual logic in the code,<br>
> the package is *not* endorsed by me for production use in it's current<br> > state.<br> ><br> > Cheers<br> ><br> > Alan<br> ><br> > --<br> > The Open Learning Centre<br> > Web: <a href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com">www.theopenlearningcentre.com</a><br>
><br> ><br> >> -----Original Message-----<br> >> From: <a href="mailto:vtigercrm-developers-bounces@lists.vtigercrm.com">vtigercrm-developers-bounces@lists.vtigercrm.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:vtigercrm-developers-bounces@lists.vtigercrm.com">vtigercrm-developers-bounces@lists.vtigercrm.com</a>] On Behalf Of Alan Lord (News)<br>
>> Sent: 23 September 2009 06:36 PM<br> >> To: <a href="mailto:vtigercrm-developers@lists.vtigercrm.com">vtigercrm-developers@lists.vtigercrm.com</a><br> >> Subject: [Vtigercrm-developers] Customer Portal Update<br>
>><br> >> Hi all,<br> >><br> >> We've been using vtiger for sometime ourselves and have recently started<br> >> promoting it to our customers too.<br> >><br> >> This got me looking at the Customer Portal in some detail.<br>
>><br> >> I noticed that it is being rendered to the web using lots of tables and<br> >> also had some nesting errors associated with that.<br> >><br> >> Using tables for data that needs to be displayed in a table is fine.<br>
>> Using tables for page-layout purposes is really frowned upon in the web<br> >> design community and creates problems for accessibility users.<br> >><br> >> Seeing as the customer portal is an "outside facing" component of vtiger<br>
>> it is important that it should be as adherent to standards and<br> >> best-practice as possible I think. So, I've spent quite a while<br> >> re-working the code.<br> >><br> >> It is by no means perfect and I'm quite sure there's an opportunity for<br>
>> considerable re-factoring to remove quite a bit of duplicate code.<br> >><br> >> The file here:<br> >><br> >> <a href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/vtigercrm-customerportal-5.1.0-tolc.zip">http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/vtigercrm-customerportal-5.1.0-tolc.zip</a><br>
>><br> >> is our modified customer portal package. It uses a more modern doctype<br> >> (XHTML 1.0 transitional) and is as valid as I can make it for the time<br> >> being. I have replaced most of the tables used purely for layout with<br>
>> divs have removed most of the hard-coded styling and migrated this to<br> >> the stylesheets so it is easier to customise to match the host's<br> >> website. I've tested it with IE6, IE8, Firefox 3.0 and Google Chrome.<br>
>> The stylesheets are also separated to make the styling elements easier<br> >> to identify.<br> >><br> >> I'm happy to continue to improve this part of vtiger on behalf of my<br> >> company but would really appreciate some feedback on my efforts so far.<br>
>> We will be using this version on our website shortly.<br> ><br> ><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > Reach hundreds of potential candidates - <a href="http://jobs.vtiger.com">http://jobs.vtiger.com</a><br>
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