2016-10-31 11:02 GMT+01:00 Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]>:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Guillaume Delhumeau < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Last month, one of the main contributors of Bootstrap has announced that > > the 3.x.x branch will no longer be developed [1]. > > > > It means that they are currently putting all their efforts to Bootstrap > > 4.x, and now they are releasing Alphas so the version 4.0 should be > > available soon. > > > > In Flamingo, we use Bootstrap 3.3.7. If we decide to upgrade to Bootstrap > > 4, we will have the following problems: > > > > 1. Bootstrap 4 is not retro-compatible with Bootstrap 3. There are new > > components, and some have been removed. We know that some extensions are > > using Bootstrap elements so there is a risk they're gonna be broken. > > > > 2. Bootstrap 4 no longer uses the LESS language. Instead, they use SASS > [2] > > (the SCSS variant). Which means we should integrate SASS in XWiki, as we > > did for LESS. Some work could be re-used, but there are still work to do, > > and it increases the number of CSS preprocessor to support. For the > record, > > the team has mentioned that Bootstrap might use PostCSS in the future! > > > > I've already spoken about this problem in a previous thread last year > [3], > > but the problem will probably hits us in the following months. It may be > a > > strong topic for XWiki 9.x or 10.x. > > > > Note: I haven't mentioned the Bootstrap alternative called "Foundation" > > [4], since it would be a bigger breaking change :) > > > > Or http://semantic-ui.com/ . > > Bootstrap is missing some (JavaScript) components for rich user > interaction. It is very nice if you only need a presentation website but in > XWiki we need more than that. We often need to create forms and we need > widgets: suggest input, date picker, slider, advanced select, form > validation, etc. The select widget you recently integrated in the > Administration for selecting languages is such an example. Integrating > these widgets (even if they have a Bootstrap look&feel) using their WebJar > is not seamless because the CSS they provide won't obey the color theme. > Something to have in mind for the future. > And at least it uses LESS :) > > Thanks, > Marius > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Guillaume > > > > [1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20631# > issuecomment-244844932 > > [2] http://sass-lang.com/guide > > [3] http://markmail.org/message/7sbviier23wzfadf > > [4] http://foundation.zurb.com/ > > > > -- > > Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) > > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS > > Committer on the XWiki.org project > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
