Hi Richard and everyone, We are currently using less for our own project based on OFBiz, and it really is cleaning up a lot of noise in stylesheets. We are using a gradle plugin that compiles less to css without node:
https://github.com/obecker/gradle-lesscss-plugin and that's working well. So it is likely there are jars out there that compile less to css without node. Cheers Paul Foxworthy Richard Siddall wrote > Jonatan Soto wrote: >> Would be anyone interested in convert the existing frontend themes into >> Bootstrap http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/? >> >> The idea is to create a theme from scratch that will replace the current >> default and multiplex themes. > [snip] > > While I think having more modern front-end themes would be great, let me > play devil's advocate... > > Why Bootstrap? > > Why not Zurb Foundation (http://foundation.zurb.com/), HTML5 Boilerplate > (http://html5boilerplate.com/) or some other starting point? Or as > Scott Kellum argued on the Compass list (on January 8), use a > combination of components such as Susy, Sassy-buttons, Color-Schemer, > and Modular-Scale. > > Bootstrap is an easy way of getting a lot of functionality, but it's > arguable overused. It's fast becoming to HTML5 frameworks what Times > Roman is to web fonts. If you want your web shop to look like everyone > else's web shop, it's a great choice. If you want to differentiate > yourself in the market, use something else. > > Plus, many Bootstrap-based themes just throw the whole bloated framework > at the browser, regardless of which pieces they use, slowing page loads > and wasting mobile bandwidth allocations. But Bootstrap is built on > LESS, so you can choose which chunks of CSS and JavaScript should be > included in your site's copy of Bootstrap, as well as using variables > and mixins to get more consistent CSS styling. > > LESS is based on JavaScript, which practically requires you to install > Node.js to use it. Zurb Foundation is based on SASS, which is written > in Ruby. It looks like SASS will run on JRuby on the JVM. > > To summarize: > - Bootstrap is just one of several great HTML5 frameworks > - You can get the same effects using straight CSS3 and JavaScript, or > smaller projects for areas like responsive design, button styling, text > spacing, etc. > - Bootstrap is overused > - Bootstrap is frequently ineptly used, penalizing the end user > - A major reason to use Bootstrap is to use LESS and other languages > that abstract CSS and JavaScript > - Bootstrap may not be the best framework for a Java-based project > > I hope this helps. > > Regards, > > Richard Siddall ----- -- Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd http://www.coherentsoftware.com.au/ Bonsai ERP, the all-inclusive ERP system http://www.bonsaierp.com.au/ -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Converting-frontend-themes-to-Twitter-Bootstrap-tp4641013p4641076.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
