[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Streamlined, more semantic TPAC skin - thoughts?

[Mike Rylander]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I've spent a bit of time working towards a streamlined, somewhat more
> semantic TPAC skin in the user/dbs/tpac_semantic_amazon_record_details
> branch of the "working" git repo.

...[snip]...

> So, some questions:
>  * Is this direction of general interest?
>

IMNSHO, this is a big improvement over the current default TPAC skin.

>  * Are there document IDs that other parts of Evergreen care about (in
>    particular, does the staff client need specific document IDs)?
>

Probably?

>  * I could break this out into a separate skin, rather than replacing
>    the default skin as the branch currently does, but worry about a
>    craftsman / default fork where one skin gets features that the other
>    doesn't. To a certain extent, this skin may reflect academic
>    institutional biases. If there's support for this skin, how do we
>    want to proceed?
>

My preference would be to replace the current TPAC skin once this one
has all the existing functional bits, including staff client entry
points, if they're not there already.

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