Barry,
Will this work with bootstrap 3?
Any plans to support it?
On Friday, June 7, 2013, Barry Books wrote:
> I finally got around to trying out Tapestry 5.4 Alpha. I'd heard 5.4 was
> switching to JQuery and Bootstrap and it's true! However for me at least
> that does not mean an end to the Tapestry-Bootstrap module. In fact I think
> I can make it better because I can now throw away the thousands of lines
> that converted the old Tapestry HTML to something that could be formatted
> Bootstrap and focus on features.
>
> The goal of the old module was to take an existing Tapestry application and
> magically convert it to use the Bootstrap framework. The new modules goal
> is to make it easier to create Bootstrap websites.
>
> So far I've focused on two areas. First is forms. I've added a
> BootstrapForm mixin to the form component. The mixin checks the class
> parameter of the form and corrects the HTML for the form type. Tapestry
> outputs HTML suitable for the Bootstrap form-horizontal class. The mixin
> changes the HTML to support other types of Bootstrap forms. For example
>
> <t:beaneditform object="user" class="form-inline" cancel="true"/>
>
>
> will produce an inline form.
>
>
> The next area is thumbnails. While the pervious thumbnail code worked it
> had numerous limitations. The new thumbnails start with the PagedLoopMixin.
> This mixin modifies the existing Loop component to support paging of
> Collections or GridData and can be combined with other components such as
> pagination to create a Thumbnail gallery. For example:
>
>
> <t:tb.thumbnails for="users" rowsPerPage="8" availableRows=
> "users.AvailableRows">
>
> <t:tb.pagination />
>
> <ul class="thumbnails">
>
> <li t:type="loop" t:id="users" value="user" class="span4">
>
> ${user.firstname}
>
> </li>
>
> </ul>
>
> <t:tb.pagination />
>
> </t:tb.thumbnails>
>
>
> Soon I'll add support for Javascript Infinite Scroll. This mixin removes
> the pagination markup and uses Ajax to fetch the next page when the bottom
> of the page is reached.
>
>
> I'm also planing to support all the components in the Bootstrap Javascript
> library. So far I've got Popover and Tooltip.
>
>
> Since this is a preview release you'll have to build it:
>
>
> https://github.com/trsvax/tapestry-bootstrap/tree/5.4
>
>
> Comments, questions concerns are welcome.
>
>
> Lastly some comments on Tapestry 5.4. I've been using JQuery and Bootstrap
> for almost 2 years now and I welcome the native support for both of these.
> The new Javascript interface is much better than the old one. After I
> figured it out I really like the new javaScriptSupport.require method. That
> said for the most part it seems just like 5.3 and seems solid even for an
> Alpha release.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Barry
>
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Dmitry Gusev
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