Well, I have to see that it is amusing to see that google are using animated sprites instead of animated gifs?
Just hit the Google site this morning..

Any one want to comment on why?

Here is the animated sprite in question..

ok; so the old entrance to Blue Studios  was just some text :(…

So I thought over the weekend the enhance the entrance, I hope you all like it.

The Digaset site and our Open Source jQuery Games Engine site are temporarily down whilst we do some updates.

It’s that wonderful time of the year where I get to go out - chill, relax and forget about the fun world of work.
This time I`ll be spending 3 glorious weeks relaxing on my own, by lake Bled in Slovenia.

So, if any one happens to be in the neighborhood and wants to go for a drink go party ping me a message

A quick headups -

I`m too busy with WebCenter to blog about this  - so head over to Fishbowl Solutions for more info.

http://cfour.fishbowlsolutions.com/2010/06/08/oracle-ucm-11g-is-here-announcements-and-useful-links/

Useful Links::

11g Documentation can be found here

11g UCM OTN downloads can be found here or you can download via the Oracle eDelivery system here: http://edelivery.oracle.com under FMW 11g –> Media Pack (MAY-13-2010 update) –>V21123-01 Oracle Enterprise Content Management 11g (11.1.1.3.0)

The OTN ECM 11g page is here — Download Links appear to be down (404) today from OTN?

The oracle.com page with videos and other explainer content is here.

Last month I posted some info on Render kits and my overall confusion why I couldn’t change the default Spaces skin from the default trinidad Renderkit to Oracle.adf.rich. Or be able to have each skin based on a renderkit ie My Skin PDA to use the oracle.adf.pda renderkit and My Skin to use Oracle.adf.rich?

From many discussions with Oracle; it appears that WebCenter Spaces absolutely uses the oracle.adf.rich render kit.  You can find the render kit specified in the faces-config.xml file via the <default-render-kit-id> property.

Now why are we seeing Trinidad in the skins renderkit option?

For each skin in trinidad-skins.xml, the <render-kit-id>  property indicates for which render kit that particular skin was designed. Even for ADF rich client applications, the value is of that property is expected to be “org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.desktop”. The Oracle consultants I spoke with have never seen this set to anything else and confirmed this with someone on the ADF engineering team that they don’t believe you could specify anything else.  Although I think you would be able to set the org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.pda renderkit as documented P335 in the Oracle Webcenter 11g Handbook. Other renderkits I tried just crashed the app.

This is because ADF leverages the existing trinidad skin model and supports the ADF Faces af| selectors in the skin definition.  Therefor all of the OOTB skins in WebCenter have af| selectors which is another indication that WebCenter is using the ADF Faces rich client render kit.

Any other reasons I was concerned about the renderkit used?

Yes.. I currently use the simple.desktop skin to extend all my new skins from.

Now when I create a new panelbox I expected the render kit to output the footer DOM structure. For some reason no footer is created; if you extend from the blafplus-rich you will notice also no footer is created although it is documented within the Oracle Tag Guide. If you look at the trinidad tag guide you will see no footer is defined.

Now when the skin is changed to use Fusion the DOM structure is made available.. This is strange and what I believed before was that the issue was down to spaces somehow using the wrong renderkit to output the right Dom structure. Now I believe is there is a property in the fusion.xss … yes *.XSS xml skin file webcenter uses to create its base CSS skins. But this is still under discussion any one have any ideas?