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 > >
