Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Themes

[Dave Hall]

Michael Dean <address@hidden> wrote:

> You could look at http://phplayersmenu.sourceforge.net/ for a LGPL
> system.
> 
> But really, I don't know why everyone thinks every template set should
> have a fallback mode.  It doesn't do any justice to the 
> possibilities of
> more advanced web clients.  Creating a separate template set for
> Links/Lynx/insert-text-browser-here makes a lot more sense.

I understand this limitation.  Maybe we could look at some browser
detection and select a generic fallback template if the browser will not
cope with the user selection.

> 
> On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 16:07, Brent Kelly wrote:
> > >There are several good free js nested menu systems available.  
> One of
> > >these could be use for this.  The big issue is xbrowser 
> compatiablility> >and a fall back mode. 
> > >
> > One of the most widely used scripts to achieve such cross-
> browser 
> > functionality is the CoolMenus script written by Thomas Brattli 
> and is 
> > available from http://www.dhtmlcentral.com. One of its claimed 
> features 
> > is 99% Browser compatibility. Not sure if there will be any 
> issues using 
> > it with groupware regarding copywrite etc - all it requires is 
> that you 
> > maintain the copywrite message in the source.
> > 
> > Fallback mode should be easy enough to implement with 
> $HTTP_USER_AGENT 
> > (if required - really i guess the primary requirement of a fall 
> back 
> > mode would be that the user must be able to reach preferences 
> (which 
> > would allow them to change their theme) without using any of the 
> dhtml 
> > functionality)
> 
> 
> 
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