[DELTACLOUD-INTERNAL] Prepared new forms - feedback

Hugh Brock hbrock at redhat.com
Tue Sep 4 12:26:24 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:55:39PM +0200, Jaromír Coufal wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> based on your valuable previous comments, I prepared (hopefully)
> final version of forms for Conductor and Katello (will be part of
> Converge-UI library).
> 
> All elements use pure HTML and CSS without any JavaSrcipt. So this
> is fallback look when JS is switched off. Difference between JS and
> no-JS version would be in behaviour of special input types such as
> select, multiple, date, etc., but no-JS version needs to provide as
> similar functionality as possible.
> 
> HTML5 types (such as date, file input) are rendered by browser so
> they have its look. In some browsers (such as Firefox) HTML5 inputs
> are not supported. So we need to be sure, that if user uses this
> combination (e.g. FF and no JS), he is still able to finish his task
> (assured by classic input type instead of HTML5 type).
> 
> Forms are fully responsive - you can check it by resizing your
> browser window. It's prepared in a way, that you don't have to have
> small window size to change its layout. Just specify class in form
> element and it will "automagicaly" move inputs to the top or
> messages to the bottom of input (or both).
> 
> You can find example here:
> http://convergeui-jcoufal.rhcloud.com/form
> (now should work in Chrome, FF and Opera, IE not tested yet)
> 
> Please, I would like you to ask to have a look and give me some
> feedback, if you can. Especially for guys from Katello, if this
> would work for them as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Jarda
> 

This looks fantastic Jarda. cc-ing katello-devel.

Do you happen to know if we have any plans for JS enhancements for
non-HTML5 browsers (i.e. date popups, etc.)? Anybody else?

Thanks,
--Hugh

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