Thanks Barry - I'll be checking it out over the weekend and not a quarter past one in the morning :) Cheers
On 09/02/2012, at 12:42 AM, Barry Books wrote: > Some background > > There was a post on this list about converting the Tapestry example to > use Twitter Bootstrap. I had never heard of the project so I looked > and discovered it's basically a grid based CSS layout system created > by Twitter and there are a number of other grid based CSS systems out > there. > > The basic idea is you mark your elements with class names that > describe where in the grid the element goes. Many of the grid systems > (including Bootstrap) are responsive. This means the layout can change > based on the device so the same page can work well on desktop, tablet > and phone. These CSS frameworks also have a complete set of CSS that > result in a reasonably styled page. Bootstrap uses Less to generate > the CSS. > > The common theme is you have some markup structure, CSS and sometimes > javascript to create common elements such as buttons and navigation. > > Bootstrap seemed like a good way to build prototypes and simple > websites that did not look like they were designed by a programmer. At > the time Bootstrap was 1.x and I developed some components that used > it. When the Bootstrap developers created a 2.x branch they started > over. Of course the 2.0 version is better but not backward compatible. > That branch was released a few days ago. I wanted to release about the > same time hence the early alpha designation. > > So what is/was Tapestry-Bootstrap? > > The original idea was to create a set of components that could be used > along with the Twitter Bootstrap framework. The 2.0 version of Twitter > Bootstrap has caused me to rethink that idea and the new vision is a > framework for transforming the look and feel of existing components by > adapting their output to various HTML frameworks. Currently I'm only > interested in the Twitter Bootstrap but It because obvious a flexible > architecture needed to track changes and support existing components > without rewriting much code. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
