Separate positioning from widget code about uebersicht

[edasque]

Wouldn't a jQuery Masonry type approach work even in this extreme case: http://masonry.desandro.com/

[felixhageloh]

I think this is similar to #26

[deanishe]

It's definitely related.

My main concern is having some way to configure/style widgets that is separate from the widget to make it easy to update widgets or sync them across different machines.

Like a style block in an optional, separate config file that overrides the widget's own.

[felixhageloh]

The idea with the stylesheet is not bad. It could also be used to tweak the appearance of a widget, instead of modifying the widget itself. That way you could just use git to check out a widget repo and keep it up to date.

Not sure if you are aware, but I there is a drag and drop branch that basically works, but ends up being quite complex with a large surface for bugs (the complication being: keeping the power of relative positioning and still being able to drag and drop). This could be a very simple and robust alternative, although not as user friendly.

[edasque]

Automatic widget positioning through jQuery Masonry or something similar (probably easy to do for you) and an elegant way to include a script tag are the two most important features AFAIK.