Yesterday, we held a Community Workshop about CSS frameworks, where Jon talked to us about what frameworks offer and how they work in general. Jon's slide can be found athttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1F-MyQQH--DJnztLLyLA1VfTwiSRqV5X9iOztWE46rgY/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p
We also discussed what we – the Fluid community – are looking for in a CSS framework, and what further steps we might take to help us finalize our decision around which framework to use. We've updated a wiki page with notes about our criteria and explorations: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/CSS+Framework+Exploration This page lists the "features" that we feel are important and provides a place for us to record the results of our investigations into the two front-runner frameworks, Foundation and Bootstrap. Some of the main discussion centred around how our UI Options component might interact with a CSS framework: - What value would this provide to integrators? - Could this reduce the work integrators have to do to their page to make it work with UIO? - Could it make current or future planned transformations easier? - By supporting a framework, will there be new features we can add to UIO previously not possible (or was too costly to implement)? - What problems might this cause for integrators using a different framework? We discussed the possibility of providing adapters to allow UIO to work easily with different CSS frameworks. While this was felt to be too much of a maintenance and testing burden, we recognized that the implementation could be made to at least support this option in the future. Justin just added another question: Is our primary focus a) simplifying our process for making sites/demos/components? or b) simplifying integrators' work at using UIO? Our next steps are to investigate some of the questions we still have and record our findings on the wiki page mentioned above. -- Anastasia Cheetham Inclusive Design Research Centre [email protected] Inclusive Design Institute OCAD University _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
