Is this satisfactory?
I believe the new Ajax Scaffold Generator that I’ve just released covers this wish and then some.
You can go check out the demo and read the how-to
. Then tell me if you think that satifies this wish or what else you would like to see added.
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Instead of the vanilla plain scaffolding pages, I’d love to see a kick-ass CSS designed beauty that’ll bring those warm fuzzy feelings of polish to virgin eyes looking upon Rails for the first time.
Preferably, there would also be different scaffolding list designs: One for a weblog view, one for a table view, and more.
Who has what it takes to do such templates? Could the Rails community raise funds to buy them from some grade-A designer?
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I really don’t see why an open source project should rely on commercial designers. There are plenty excellent designers out there willing to contribute to an open source project.
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A first step would be to make sure that the html used in the default scaffolding follows W3C recommendations. There really is no other way (see http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/XhtmlComplianceWish). When that is done it would be easy to do implement different designs by just changing the stylesheet.
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I would like to see the CSS class and id’s as lowercase with hyphens rather than camel as this seems to be the unofficial “standard” amongst all good CSS gurus
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Good Examples already:
http://www.standards-schmandards.com/exhibits/rails/
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Nice work on the accessabily and standards demos above, some suggestions:
- the table needs a targetted class or else the style will affect all tables used in the site
- the stripey tr class should really be called .odd so that the designer doesn’t have to think to realise the first row will be one color or the other.
- I don’t think we can rely on image files being created by the scaffolding.
- do we really want the ‘cancel’ button?
- would it make more sense to just add a visible heading for the controls?
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I too am interested in standards compliant scaffolding… Here’s where I’ve been starting with XHTML 1.0 Strict tables:
http://irk.com/table2.html
it’s not scaffold-ized, and doesn’t include all of the accessibility markup it probably should, but it does include more table “functionality”