On 2012-10-7, at 5:27 AM, Ian Walls wrote: > I believe Koha needs to keep maximum standards compliance and backwards > compatibility, as we often do encounter older hardware and software in the > line of international duty. > > However, we do have the mechanisms in place to support multiple templates. > The chief difficulty with using this feature has been keeping up to date with > the changes in passed variables. If we rigourized the variables available on > any given page, and agreed not to make changes to that model except with > major releases (and document the changes thoroughly), it would be a lot > easier to develop and maintain different templates that meet different needs. > > We could provide, by default, a very slick Bootstrap-based template, as well > as a lean, quick-loading, highly compatible template. > >
wow!, that an awesome idea Ian, (something i had not thought of) i'll have a go at this task, in my spare time... :) > In general, I think we need to be very cognizant of what minimum requirements > we assign to Koha, both for client and server, in order to make it was easy > to adopt and use as possible. > > Ian > > > On Oct 5, 2012 7:42 PM, "Paul" <[email protected]> wrote: > At 12:11 PM 10/6/2012 +1300, Mason James wrote: > [snip] > so, the bad news is that *currently* bootstrap doesn't run on debian-stable's > firefox... until the next debian release > > Also, anyone setting up a library "kiosk" using older hardware (as a charity > on a non-existent budget, we have several of them) is going to be limited to > Firefox 3.5 (possibly 3.6 built on Gecko 1.9.2?) regardless of later > releases. I could dig out my notes, but from memory you can't get a more > recent Firefox (12+, now 15?) to work on a Pentium (or at least with any > degree of ease, reliability, etc) and I also seem to remember that we came to > the same conclusion with Chrome. Opera seemed to be the exception, but is not > (statistically) popular. > > While trying to remain in the realm of political correctness, many Koha users > seem to be from "less developed" parts of the world where older hardware is > more common. IE6 is also running into the bottom percentile range, but still > has a good representation in some countries ... I personally believe that > Bootstrap could genuinely offer a lot of potential, but perhaps not for all > users? > > Best - Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ cheers, Mason -- KohaAloha, NZ _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
