+1
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) < [email protected]> wrote: > +1 for LESS > > Thanks, > Caty > > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Needs: As you already know, the new skin, Flamingo, is based on > Bootstrap ( > > http://getbootstrap.com/) which use a CSS Preprocessor to have more > > flexibility. There is 2 majors competitors in this field: LESS ( > > http://lesscss.org/) and SASS (http://sass-lang.com/). Bootstrap is > using > > LESS but they also provide an official port for SASS. > > > > We need to execute one of these preprocessors at the runtime, to > recompile > > the Bootstrap CSS according to the current Color Theme. > > > > After a long thread [1] where we have compared the 2 preprocessors, and > > after some discussions on IRC, **I am proposing you to choose LESS**. > > > > Why: > > * It is the original preprocessor used by Bootstrap, and so the majority > of > > Bootstrap Themes that we can find on the web provides LESS sources. If we > > want to be able to use all these themes, using LESS is clearly an > > advantage. > > * Caty, Denis and I have a bit of experience with it. Bluebird [2], Junco > > [3] and the current Flamingo skins are built with LESS. > > * The syntax is not too close to Velocity, meanwhile SASS is. > > * The Java integration, using Rhino, works quite well. Although there is > an > > issue [4] for which I have written a patch. I hope the LESS community > will > > handle it. > > * It looks a bit more popular than SASS. > > > > Here is my +1 for using LESS. > > > > For the record, this is what I am going to do: > > > > * Implement a cache to only compile LESS files when needed, because the > > computation is costly. The cache will be flushed only when the current > > color theme is modified. > > * Write new components and a script service to compile LESS files that > are > > present in the skin directory, partially parsed with Velocity. In the > > future, we might want to integrate it directly in the Skin Action, but > that > > means we need to change oldcore. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Guillaume (Louis-Marie) > > > > --- > > [1] The thread "[Proposal] Integrate LESS css in XWiki": > > http://markmail.org/message/hw45txkv2vk5dnqw > > [2] Bluebird Skin: > > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Bluebird+Skin > > [3] Junco Skin: > > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Junco+Skin > > [4] LESS issue: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2005 > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
