[Solar-talk] layout generator

Wed Aug 2 06:33:18 PDT 2006

On 8/2/06, Antti Holvikari wrote:
> This is maybe a little off-topic:

No, it is not! That's the topic idea - to make a reasonable proposal
for Solar generic layouts.

> After Clay mentioned the YUI stuff I changed my app's layout to the
> yui-t4 layout. And I think it works great! The only problem there is
> that if you want to change the widths you have to know what to put in
> your own css file, which is not so obvious. My "master" layout file is
> now only 25 lines long (and the <head> is still hardcoded), and I just
> include _header.php, _footer.php and the layout_content in it. I think
> with those YUI templates we could create really solid, simple layouts
> for Solar. At least you could copy&paste an existing layout to make
> your own if none of the layouts fit your needs.

Yesterday night I resurrected my YUI grids playground to see what
could be done. I haven't gone much far, mainly because I haven't found
a simple way to have fluid layouts *and* control over the columns
widths and the grids paddings. This is a YUI Grids restriction, as
they say, and so if there is no simple solution... it would be
difficult for me to use them. Not that they don't have any use.

Maybe you could provide some layout & css examples? So we could
evaluate the possibilities.

rodrigo