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I'd like to announce my project of new skin for report generator.
It is based on current one, but has lot of modifications and changes.
Primary goals:
-Remove all frames
-Make it more css dependent, so it will be more customizable for any user
-Speed up opening pages, by loading content on left sidebar by using AJAX
You can check now, how it looks on http://familytrees.genopro.com/Quayle/dev
Config.xml is slightly modified, but not Dictionary.xml, so all the translations will be valid for it.
Any comments are welcome. 
Edit:
Changed dev-site address.
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Edited: Thursday, October 7, 2010 by
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I have been thinking for some time that I would create a new skin as an independent, open-source project. If I have time, I am willing to help with development.
I have a few questions/comments.
- Source Code Management is a great thing. Use it.
Personally, I use Git but have heard that Mercurial has better Windows support. I have used GitHub for project hosting, but that obviously doesn't work if Mercurial becomes the SCM of choice.
Ron: Do you use a SCM? If so, would you be willing to make the ENR SCM public?
- Make sure you know the provenance of your source.
If we're going to borrow anything from the English Narrative Report, we probably need permission from Ron and/or GenoPro, Inc., depending on its copyright status. Preferably, this permission would be given by licensing the relevant code under whatever license we choose to use for the new skin. My original plan was to create the new report completely from scratch, but Ron has put many hours into ENR, and there is some useful code there (SVG generation comes to mind).
Ron: What is the copyright status of ENR?
- I didn't want my project to be obsolete by the time I finished it, so I was planning to use some bleeding-edge technologies like HTML 5 (see WHATWG).
- On the other hand, one of the things that I don't like about ENR is that the SVG view only works in IE and Firefox. I wanted my project to be as cross-browser-compatible as possible with the understanding that my audience, which is mostly non-tech people, primarily uses IE6, and I have to support it. This limits the features of HTML 5 that can be used.
This may indicate the use of JavaScript libraries like jQuery or html5shiv [sic].
This may contraindicate the use of existing SVG code.
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edanite (9/14/2010)I have a few questions/comments. - Ron: Do you use a SCM? If so, would you be willing to make the ENR SCM public?
Originally as a novice lone developer I struggled with TortoiseCVS using a local repository but eventually abandoned it. I note that there are Tortoise ports for both Mecurial & Git and I have no preference. I agree for multi-developer environment SCM is essential
2. Ron: What is the copyright status of ENR?
Some of the original templates where written by GenoPro (Dan) but anything I wrote I am happy to be in the 'public domain' . Perhaps a GNU GPL would be best for future work?
one of the things that I don't like about ENR is that the SVG view only works in IE and Firefox.
I am currently working on a revision of the SVG controls with the objective of getting it working with Google Chrome and working better with Firefox. I am hoping to mimic the Google Maps controls to provide consistency and familiarity.
This may indicate the use of JavaScript libraries like jQuery or html5shiv [sic]. This may contraindicate the use of existing SVG code.
I support the use of jQuery having used it successfully a few times. What would be good would be for someone to write SVG plugins for jQuery!
I would also be happy to participate in any open source project, time permitting and depending on objectives and design criteria.
'lego audio video erro ergo disco' or "I read, I listen, I watch, I make mistakes, therefore I learn"
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