Another guideline
Details about something that can be explained with a picture.
This is the portlet style guide.
Examples of topics in-scope (but not treated yet in this guide):
Examples of topics out-of-scope:
Other guides that might be relevant:
Be kind to your users. Be kind to your fellow developers. Be especially kind to those who especially struggle, who struggle to understand your portlet, who struggle to navigate the portal, who struggle to understand, support, and build upon your work, who struggle to make the most of the richness and complexity of the University. The purpose of a portlet development guide is to guide development towards processes, products, and experiences that are more kind.
A kind portlet is a usable, accessible, adoptable, supportable, maintainable, loved portlet.
Modifying and writing portlets is a tiny little opportunity to be kind. Certainly nothing like the most important such opportunities you will enjoy, but when life hands you an opportunity to be kind, take it.
Take care to be kind when applying this guide to others' work. The guide is not intended as a blunt instrument. Portlet development, like much of life, requires poise and charm.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Examples and further explanation go here.
Another list of some other stuff
Details about something that can be explained with a picture.
Something that needed explaining with a bigger picture.
TODO: say something intelligent about JavaScript in the context of portlets. Somehow JavaScript is not turning out to be a passing fad.
The components in MyUW are called "Apps", not portlets, though they may technically be JSR-286 portlets. App is always capitalized where it appears in the UI (i.e., "App"). "An App" rather than "A App".