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, 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, 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.