[Adium-devl] adiumPurpleRequestFields

[Andre-John Mas]

I have been following this thread and while it is true WebKit
does not necessarily allow true Mac-like appearance, it does
have the advantage of it being skin-able, since it does allow
easy changing of the CSS.

I agree that if we have something that works now then we should
go with it. At the same time I ask how this settings are going
to be accessed and whether there could be a way of making the
web-like appearance feel as if it was meant to be.

I would love to see a prototype of this in Action in a non-official
build just to see how well it is working out.

Andre

On 7-Jun-07, at 14:17 , Colin Barrett wrote:

>
> On Jun 7, 2007, at 5:29 AM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
>
>> On Jun 07, 2007, at 08:55, Colin Barrett wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm not so sure—an NSForm, with some subclasses of NSFormCell,  
>>>> could
>>>> certainly do the job with not much pain.
>>>
>>> That might be way better. Getting HTML to 90% of the way to looking
>>> like a native app is pretty easy. Getting it that last 10% is tough.
>>> If we can do it with Cocoa, that would be way better. I actually
>>> didn't know about NSForm.
>>
>> Well, since WebKit uses native controls, all that's left to be Mac-
>> like is the placing, which shouldn't be impossible to get right using
>> a table and some css.
>
> A table? Are you serious? :(
>
>> I considered writing it in Cocoa last year, but then I looked at all
>> the controls that are necessary:
>> [snip]
>
> Yeah, after reading the long, long list, we probably just want to go
> with the WebView. I would advise caution, and would encourage Andy not
> to rathole on this too much. Once he's got the basics set up, other
> people (yes, I'm volunteering) can help him out with it.
>
> -Colin
>
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