On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Martijn Dashorst <[email protected]> wrote: > Since a while I have found myself enjoying building sites based upon > Twitter's Bootstrap. More and more projects are basing their styling > on it, and while the default is rather too common these days, it does > look a lot nicer than plain old CSS straight out of the browser. > > I plan to utilize Bootstrap for the new Wicket site design. The site > design doesn't have anything to do with Wicket proper, but I do think > that the examples project can use a face lift in the light of > Bootstrap and a new site design. > > A couple of reasons to provide bootstrap as a Apache Wicket component: > > - tied to our own release schedule, so we can be sure it works and is > properly licensed > - ability to use it in our own examples > - many requests for a better default theme for Wicket will suddenly silence > - nice showcase for our pick of jquery as base Wicket ajax > - nice showcase for resource aggregations > - looks pretty decent (did I mention that already?) > - prevent fragmentation in the wicket bootstrap universe (one > integration to rule them all) > > There are a number of integrations already with Wicket and bootstrap: > - https://github.com/l0rdn1kk0n/wicket-bootstrap > - https://github.com/tdziurko/wicket-bootstrap-navbar > - http://www.david-robson.co.uk/?p=155 > > Questions: > - does anyone object to creating a > wicket-experimental/wicket-bootstrap project (we can always choose to > abandon it—I'd support it on github in such a case)
+1 > - if so, should we ask to adopt > https://github.com/l0rdn1kk0n/wicket-bootstrap as a base to work on or > roll our own (it does require some work IMO)? +1 > - if not so, and I still want to revamp wicket-examples using > bootstrap, does anyone object to rolling bootstrap directly into > wicket-examples (with the risk of folks asking for the integration to > become proper)? > - to support theming (http://bootswatch.com) less css integration is > required, should we provide a development mode integration with wro4j > for less css? (I'd suggest using the maven plugin for deployment) what do you mean by "development mode integration" ? the maven plugin compiles from less to css at build time and at runtime you just refer to the css files > > Martijn -- Martin Grigorov jWeekend Training, Consulting, Development http://jWeekend.com
