I'd like to add my 2c to this too, as from a developer point of view I hit this often.
I have created over a dozen large, commercial websites using Mezzanine and Cartridge and every single one of them I have ripped out Bootstrap for something else. The way Mezzanine integrates Bootstrap at the moment (template-level) makes this extremely easy. It would make no sense to integrate the front-end templating with the back end Python code and I hope Steve and others don't implement this as it would just give me more work to do when wanting to swap in a new front end framework. On Thursday, 31 December 2015 02:07:41 UTC+10, dunr...@gmail.com wrote: > > Guys, > > I do agree the way Django handles styling for widgets is a bit > unfortunate and can understand your rationales. > I just did like to express a point of view from a developer, where some of > expectations (declared *Twitter Bootstrap <http://getbootstrap.com/> > integration*) hit the harsh reality (partial only). Believed in lifting > most from a dull task with layout styling by a ready-made framework. > > As Eduardo pointed out, optional passing of custom attributes would > greatly improve flexibility and conforming to Bootstrap's sane defaults > won't confuse users and simplify work of Mezzanine devs. Now it is a mix of > both stylesheets. > > It is true, dynamic handling of class attributes would add some overhead > but I think it would be negligible. I did measured monkey-patched vs > original Cartridge's *OrderForm* in production mode with wrk and the > difference in rendering times was lesser then 0.5% . In addition, Mezzanine > already *does* set widget classes at the runtime in some forms, so the > performance reasons are even more questionable. > > I find the most serious issue with breaking existing compatibility, for > already deployed projects. Glad to hear how would be welcomed better > standardisation from other devs. > > Anyway, thanks for the great work and contributions. If you would decide > some day it is a good idea, I'm ready to lay a hand at implementation. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mezzanine-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
