Hi, Timo,
The promisingly looking Extropy skin seems to be really side-tracked for now.
The version you uploaded to Codeplex is exactly the same Extropy 1.0.0 as attached to Nik's webinar on skinning, plus the container in two flavors.
There are two skin layouts, Home and Portal. They are identical, even with the same error replicated in line 79 (see below), except for an EmbedWidget calling Flickr in the Home version
These are errors/problems I discovered with it till now:
- In the Toolbox, the currently used font size, width and palette icons jump correctly in Internet Explorer (tested in IE8), but stay inert in the same line, with no visible indication which one is active, in Firefox (3.5.3).
- Both layouts, Portal.html and Home.html, have a typo in line 79, a parameter in the definition of the NAV Menu SkinObject:
<param name="providername="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" />
The correct version is, obviously:
<param name="providername" value="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" />
- The header menu is there before login (anonymous visitor), yet it disappears once you login.
This problem appears only on Internet (in both IE8 and Firefox 3.5.3), while everything works fine in Visual Sudio browser (Cassini).
This is a total show-stopper problem. Correcting the typo mentioned under point 2 (above) does not resolve this issue.
Well, I went to the http://support.dotnetnuke.com site that you suggested at the beginning of this thread, with the idea to report these issues there. Registered a UserID as requested, and found some useful information there (like the intense issue-fixing activity on the Minimal Extropy skin, and absolutely no activity on the Extropy 1.0.0). Yet, I was not able to find a way to create new issues. It seems my UserID does not have that permission level. So I decided to post them here.
The visit to the DNN Issue Tracking site gave me a clear answer that I should use the Minimal Extropy skin on my new site, setting the Extropy aside for now.
Thank you for your good help.