[Sugar-devel] [Karma] State of Chakra and knavbar

[Bryan Berry]

The bad news, E4X only works on firefox and isn't liked by them

good news

the PURE client-side js template engine comes highly recommended
http://beebole.com/pure/

I will be playing w/ it later

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 09:10 +0100, Pavel Mocan wrote:
> On 10/1/09, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > Pavel, KCD (Christoph), Felipe,
> >
> > sorry i haven't been very active this week. Pls blame it on Nepal's
> > festival season and the fact that I was sick earlier this week.
> >
> > I will take a look at the code today.
> >
> > KCD, did you ever convert knavbar to E4X?
> >
> > Pavel, I have put my comments in line w/ yours
> > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 22:33 +0100, Pavel Mocan wrote:
> >> > * Om has promised some new icons for stage 3 (months and weeks) which
> >> > should
> >> > help in making that stage look nicer
> >> > * we need to find a way to make the "subject curriculum" link blend in a
> >> > nicer way
> >> ########################
> >> i will think of a way to incorporate this better in the page.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > That would be awesome. If you have particular ideas for the icons, u can
> > communicate them to Om as he is the master artist.
> >
> >> > * making the background of the selected months / weeks white gets the
> >> > job
> >> > done but is anything other than pretty
> >> ########################
> >> one way we could solve this issue would be to change the opacity to
> >> 0.5 or 0.6 to all the rest of the elements except the selected one; OR
> >> add a small icon (arrow pointing down) on top of the selected item.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> > I like the idea of changing the opacity
> >
> >
> >> > * the odd alignment issues I mentioned yesterday (with sometimes the
> >> > layout
> >> > being oddly messed up after page-loads and then working again fine on
> >> > reload)
> >> #########################
> >> this can happen sometimes because of the browser loadings. it happends
> >> to large websites sometimes as well ...
> >>>>>>>>>
> > We should be able to fix this by monkeying around w/ the js, i think
> >
> >> > * html/css might not be as nice as it should be after my latest workings
> >> ##########################
> >> i will take a look at the html and css and try to 'organise' it :)
> >> > knavbar:
> >> > I feel knvarbar is in a half-decent state where it's beginning to be
> >> > useable. Some of the things that are still missing are:
> >> > * a nicer looking welcome page, I feel the current one still leaves
> >> > quite a
> >> > bit to be desired
> >> ##########################
> >> i would also suggest changing the icon that links to the home page
> >> (the round thingy ...); maybe one that looks clearer will do fine.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >
> > the round 'thingy' is literally a chakra, meaning wheel in Nepali. It
> > needs to stand out more and look like a button. right now it looks like
> > part of the background so it isn't intuitive to click on it.
> >
> >
> >> > * the lesson title area still isn't very nice
> >> > * we haven't really decided what the functionality of the "help" button
> >> > will
> >> > be
> >> ##########################
> >> we can have a 'pop up' window that blurs the background. the window
> >> should be displayed in the central section of the page and have a
> >> scroll bar if the information is too much.
> > I think the pop-up is the way to go. But more like an overlay like growl
> > is in Mac OS X, but bigger.
> >
> >> > * the html/css might also still need some attention after my latest
> >> > changes
> >> > Cheers and talk to you all when I'm back in Austria,
> >> > Christoph
> >
> > I will take a look at it later today and much of tomorrow.
> >
> > mpavel will u be online this evening? we could chat then. hopefully I
> > will have had a chance to look at the code.
> >
> > --
> > Bryan W. Berry
> > Technology Director
> > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
> >
> >
> 
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Bryan W. Berry
Technology Director
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org