I need to see a working example. Can you email a sample new welcome app or
patch to the existing one?
On Sunday, 9 September 2012 18:53:05 UTC-5, Paolo Caruccio wrote:
>
> About point 4 of the list it's important, imho, to have an html
> scaffolding that fits, through css classes, to our needs. A solution could
> be to change the html structure by using javascript.
> For example, we could obtain the dropdown auth navbar by inserting this
> code to the bottom of "layout.html" in the section that includes bootstrap
> menu script:
>
>
> //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------//
> var newNavbar = jQuery('<ul class="nav pull-right"></ul>');
> var newNavbarDropdown = jQuery('<li class="dropdown"></li>');
> var dropdownMenu = jQuery('<ul class="dropdown-menu"></ul>');
> var dropdownTitle =
> ($.trim($('.auth_navbar').text().split('[')[0])).length?$.trim($('.auth_navbar').text().split('[')[0]):'Welcome'
> var icons = ['icon-off', 'icon-user', 'icon-lock'];
> var newNavbarElements =
> jQuery('.auth_navbar').children('a').each(function(index){
> $(this).text('
> '+$(this).text()).appendTo(dropdownMenu).prepend('<i
> class="'+icons[index]+'"></i>').wrap('<li/>');
> });
> newNavbarDropdown.prepend('<a data-toggle="dropdown"
> class="dropdown-toggle" href="#">'+dropdownTitle+'<b
> class="caret"></b></a>');
>
> jQuery('#navbar').replaceWith(newNavbar.append(newNavbarDropdown.append(dropdownMenu)));
>
> //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------//
>
> In other words, in some circumstances, only the css is not enough. My
> proposal to avoid backward incompatibility is to build a javascript
> function or a js functions library to adequate the html provided from
> python code to the chosen css framework (skeleton, bootstrap and so on).
> What do you think?
>
> Il giorno domenica 9 settembre 2012 01:37:55 UTC+2, Massimo Di Pierro ha
> scritto:
>>
>> I have been speaking with some friends and heavy web2py users and we
>> agree that the following issue need to be addressed:
>>
>> 1) Improve Mercurial and Git support. Currently Git+web2py allows "clone"
>> and "push" whirl Hg+web2py allows "commit", "status" and "revert". I think
>> we need an abstraction layer that allows "clone", "push", "commit",
>> "status", "revert", and "pull" with both the version control system (with a
>> preference for Git). I think we need an abstraction layer on top of both
>> VCS even if for now we may support only one of them.
>>
>> 2) Handle gthub callback so that a push to github triggers a local web2py
>> pull (for testing)
>>
>> 3) make it easier to run tests and manage databases (rename, backup, etc)
>> at the click of a button.
>>
>> 4) Bootstrap looks great but it is not consistent throughout the
>> welcome app. The idea is that this should be edited in web2py.css instead
>> of any python code to allow backwards compatibility. Also we should
>> avoid changing bootstrap.css so that we can just drop-in new versions
>> of bootstrap, and or bootswatches. So we need someone with good CSS skills.
>> It shouldn't be too much extra work to make it look great out of the box.
>>
>> 5) Port admin on top of bootstrap (while preserving the artwork).
>>
>>
>> If you want to work on any of these topics, there may be funding
>> available. I think 1) should be a priority for web2py 2.1 or 2.2.
>>
>>
>>
>> P.S. Friends have suggested looking to the following links:
>>
>> Here are some issues and examples of what is possible from
>> wrapbootstrap.com templates:
>> 1. Web2py forms: they are using no styling webkit (see
>> registration/login/password reset). (Example:
>> http://wbpreview.com/previews/WB00U99JJ/login.html
>> 2. Navbar has "login/logout/password" which seems to be styled
>> differently that the other menu items. (Nice dropdown example:
>> http://wbpreview.com/previews/WB0087188/account.html)
>> 3. Form Validation: would be nice to use bootstrap form validation
>> perhaps with popovers overriding of the the redflash for incomplete
>> forms. (Example:
>> http://wbpreview.com/previews/WB0F35928/form-validation.html )
>> 4. Notifications: Use Bootstrap notifications for flash, overriding
>> the web2py growl notifications. (Lot's of options here:
>> http://wbpreview.com/previews/WB0881879/noty.html)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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