Also there is one pretty serious issue still open. Thanks Barry!
On Jul 9, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Alex Kotchnev <akoch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Barry - this is pretty cool. I hadn't seen your module and just ended up > adding the bootstrap related assets into the layout, but I see that you've > added a whole lot of useful components and stuff. > > Does it seem like the project is stable enough to produce a stable release > soon (e.g. in the next few months) ? > > Cheers, > > Alex K > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:27 AM, David Woods <da...@empiric.com.au> wrote: > >> Great work. I'm really looking forward to trying this out. Twitter >> Bootstrap makes great looking sites easy, it will be great to team them up >> with the back-end functionality of tapestry. >> >> On 9 February 2012 01:15, Chris Mylonas <ch...@opencsta.org> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
