Refactoring UI, Skinning, Translating - was: Re: [sldev] sljirastats.com Linden Metrics Report

[Callum Lerwick]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 06:20 -0400, Felix Duesenburg wrote:
> IMHO the xml files are in dire need of refactoring. Should we not do this:
> 
> In the XUI files, separate the structure from the skin. Only colors,
> text labels, border styles etc. go into the skin overlay. Even that
> could again be separated into a style pack and a language pack only
> containing the labels and tooltips.

Can you say... CSS?

Maybe LL should take a look at HippoCanvas:

http://developer.mugshot.org/wiki/Hippo_Canvas

(C'mon, the name... it's a sign.)

Which apparently recently gained CSS based theming:

http://groups.google.com/group/mugshot/browse_thread/thread/73ba19bdd8f2f993
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