Re: [Maypole] Maypole 2.0 factory templates

From: Jay Strauss (me at heyjay.com)
Date: Sun Oct 10 2004 - 15:15:25 BST


Danijel Milicevic wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> a first shot for a new set of factory templates and matching stylesheets
> and macros can be found at http://maypole.perl.org/newbeer/frontpage
>
> Currently we got problems with the combination of tables and div's,
> especially with low resolutions and small windows. We got the table and
> the searchbox overlapping currently. Workarounds would be making the
> searchbox another table in a inline row with the table, but this
> wouldn't be w3c conform, since tables are not meant to be used a layout
> elements, right?
> So, what's left: we limit the searchbox to a single-line searchfield
> with one default column (defined in the __PACKAGE__->config) and store
> it above the table somewhere. It might have a link to extended search
> which would be /beerdb/beer/search in case you are coming from the
> beer/list and so on.
>
> To be honest, those workarounds are not very appealing to me currently
> and I'd rather have the searchbox in the list template due to somewhat
> of a tradition to have a search on the same site as the displayed data.
>
> I was hoping for feedback, ideas, patches and critics from the list, the
> sooner we find a way to fix it, the sooner we get 2.0 released. :)
>
> regards,
> Danijel Milicevic
>
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Would it break the rules to just add a search button to the "add new"
area and make it "add new or search"

Jay

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