+1 Thanks -Vincent
On 15 May 2014 at 12:04:17, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau ([email protected](mailto:[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
