[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-18813) Convert JBoss Central to an HTML5 page

Convert JBoss Central to an HTML5 page -------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-18813 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-18813 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Enhancement Components: central Affects Versions: 4.3.0.Alpha1 Reporter: Fred Bricon Assignee: Fred Bricon Fix For: 4.3.0.Beta1 Attachments: Central Design Concept A.bmml, Central Design Concept A.bmml, Central Design Concept A.bmml, Central Design Concept A.png, Central Design Concept B.bmml, Central Design Concept B.bmml, Central Design Concept B.png, Central design concept E.bmml, Central design concept E.png, Design concept C - Search centric layout.bmml, Design concept C - Search centric layout.png, Design Concept D - categories across top.bmml, Design Concept D - categories across top.bmml, Design Concept D - categories across top.png, JBoss Access Panel Concept.bmml, JBoss Access Panel Concept.png, JBoss Central User Stories and Flows.gliffy, JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_InitialState.png, JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_SearchState.png, JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_SmallScreen_InitialState.png, JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_SmallScreen_SearchState.png, JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_SmallScreen_StarterHover.png, JBossCentral_DesignC_HighFidelity_StarterHover.png, Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 4.38.58 PM.png Central Page requires new capabilities : - needs more customization (display content depending on user preferences) - needs to scale with JBDS-IS, Fuse content - access to more examples, with filtering capabilities Given that the existing page is pretty hard to maintain and suffers from scalability/UI bugs, we're heading towards an HTML5 approach : - use an embedded SWT Browser widget (or Java FX), depending on the platform compatibility - webpage and its content could be served remotely (as zip), and downloaded locally for offline use. this would give us more flexibility to update the content.