Hi, 

just my two cents: In general coupling bean editor (and friends) tightly to 
bootstrap is strange even I am aware its the de facto standard. Furthermore I 
can not believe it will ever produce a layout which makes all of us happy. Is 
it not possible to add a additional, optional parameter to support "row 
building" or "field grouping" (eg List of List of field names forming 
rows/groups) and retrieve/provide css for each field and row/group by 
callbacks? Means: by default Tapestry does not care about rows/groups and may 
solely set col-xyz-whatever on each field's class to provide a default 
responsive layout. Nevertheless by a callback solution its now possible to 
easily override "that default css" for a group/row or even individual field. 
Due to the fact everything is optional it won't break old code, too.
I can not see how a mixin is able to easily modify css across elements without 
any structural hint (rows/groups), but correct me if I am wrong.


Jens



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> Am 15.10.2013 um 12:46 schrieb Barry Books <trs...@gmail.com>:
> 
> If you are building sites that work on mobile the default is correct. If
> you are starting from scratch it's OK also but converting an existing site
> can be a problem. I do have one non mobile site I'm converting so I looked
> at my old 2.3 mixin and the at the example
> 
> http://getbootstrap.com/css/#forms-horizontal
> 
> I'm not really sure how to support this because each property can have
> different col settings. My first thought is the mixin needs a map of
> propertyName/columnWidth. It might be possible to do this with the message
> catalogue also.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Lenny Primak <lpri...@hope.nyc.ny.us>wrote:
> 
>> I know of its existence but didn't really use it.  I can do it with a
>> visitor, but
>> all of these approaches are clunky.  It should be implemented in Tapestry
>> itself.
>> 
>> I really don't understand why Bootstrap people didn't make horizontal form
>> the default.
>> I guess because it's harder to get right :)
>> 
>>>> On Oct 14, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:29:57 -0300, Lenny Primak <lpri...@hope.nyc.ny.us>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have tried to implement this using a mixin, but it gets too
>> complicated for my taste.
>>>> 
>>>> The problem is that the each label and component has to be surrounded
>> with <div class='col-md-XX'> (for example)
>>>> which requires really digging around elements with MarkupWriter (error
>> prone)
>>> 
>>> Have you checked Tapestry-XPath? It helps so much in finding elements
>> which I think it could be part of Tapestry-core itself.
>>> 
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>>> Tapestry, Java and Hibernate consultant and developer
>>> http://machina.com.br
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