On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Ivan Habunek <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 November 2012 19:13, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can we have a wee bit of developer docs someplace that talks about why we >> have our own copy of Bootstrap and JQuery instead of referring to them on >> the interwebs? > > Well, I guess you could pull jquery from google [1], but I don't know > of any site hosting bootstrap. Also I think it's better not to depend > on others for the libs we need to display the site correctly.
There are some CDNs hosting Bootstrap: http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/ There are also CDNs for jQuery. Usually CDNs work well, but I agree: we should use local versions because if somebody downloads our docs and does NOT have a connection to the internet it will be pretty ugly. > Maybe we could write a couple of lines in the wiki? > >> Also, if we tweak these, how, and what would be the process for updating to >> a new version of the various .js files. > > In my opinion, jquery and bootstrap files should not be modified > themselves. All required modifications are done in site.css and > site.js (which are included after the libs so they override them). > When you want to upgrade a lib, you just overwrite the existing one > with the new version, leaving the file name the same. No need to > modify the template. Afterwards you test to see if any modification is > needed in site.css/js. That's how I do it for log4php anyway. I agree, but this is also good to know: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/customize.html#variables > > Regards, > Ivan > > [1] https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
