On 2. Mar, 2013, at 9:48, Olemis Lang wrote: > On 3/1/13, Ryan Ollos <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Matevž Bradač <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 1. Mar, 2013, at 21:47, Olemis Lang wrote: >>>> On 3/1/13, Gary Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>> There are a lot of potential ways of doing this. I am not keen on >>>>> copying the CSS across if we want to be sticking to whatever bootstrap >>>>> provides. That leaves swapping tags, which itself can probably be done >>>>> in three or more ways, or copying the styles on the client side with >>>>> js. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I was initially thinking of introducing (overriding) these in >>>> bloodhound.css rather than modifying bootstrap.css >>> >>> I think that's what Gary was referring to as well. > > yeah ... my last comment was jftr ;) > >>> But overriding things >>> in bloodhound.css quickly becomes quite cumbersome, as there is no way >>> to express "inheritance" of one tag's properties from another tag and >>> then overriding some of them (you have to copy and paste the whole >>> style). >>> > > +1 > >>> However - bootstrap is built with LESS (http://lesscss.org/), which >>> extends >>> the CSS with variables etc. which would allow just that (via mixins). >>> >> >> Oh, very cool, thank you for sharing that. >> > > that's cool > >>> Maybe we could adopt using LESS for building our custom bootstrap.css in >>> the future? >>> >> >> Do you mean, build bloodhound.css with LESS? >> > > I suppose that's what Matevz meant in first place . If so , that's > interesting . IMO we really have to assess the benefits vs the > drawbacks . In principle I wouldn't mind *if* we were in need of > relying upon LESS quite often and in considerable amounts (e.g. like > Bootstrap ;) . Maybe we end-up building a space rocket to kill a > single ant .
+1, it's more of an "if" thing. Currently bootstrap defaults suffice, there is some CSS copy&pasting, but it's not really overwhelming. If we ever want to change the default styling, or even enable the users to do so, it may be a thing to consider. > -- > Regards, > > Olemis.
