[Bese-devel] ucw status

[Andreas Fuchs]

On 2004-02-27, Marco Baringer <mb at bese.it> wrote:
> i fixed same issues with the i18n tags (i18n:date-accessor and
> i18n:format) and refactored the systems so that you can now use some
> i18n featuers even without cl-icu. i've also added a tabbed-pane
> component and converted the admin application to use it, nested tabs
> look really really ugly (does anybody have a quick 'n easy
> suggestion for making ucw look a litte bit better?).

As to making it look a little better, I have only one advice: Drop the
tables and use a style sheet. especially for the tabbed panes, I think
this will really pay off.

For two nice examples, have a look at
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/057/057.css&page=3 and
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=053%2F053%2Ecss

(I know that there is another design which has a beautiful tabbed bar,
but I'm currently unable to find it. Will report back when I found
it.)

> ucw is currently ONLY being tested on openmcl on darwin (i'm without
> access to an x86 machine), if anybody has any problems using ucw on
> other systems please speak up.

Using sbcl on x86, I can't compile ucw--dev--0.1--patch-173 with a
current bese (built config from dev/1.1). There are a few errors
regarding the symbol yaclml:*uri-for-package*, which is not in the
YACLML package.

which is the recommended version of bese to use with current UCW?

> for the curious here's a tentative todo list for 0.3.0:
>
> a) More components (tree view, i18n stuff, grid view).
>
> b) flash based components (color or date pickers)
>
> c) form validation and processing APIs
>
> d) macros for constructing pages from components ala CLIM.
>
> e) session serialization.

Sounds great! Very much looking forward to showing off ucw to the few
java web hackers that I know (-:

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Andreas Fuchs, <asf at boinkor.net>, asf at jabber.at, antifuchs