Hmm, I think I found an answer to this. I'll check the TiddlyWikiDev group 
to see if there's another way to get the Grid option working...



On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 9:13:10 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>
> I did indeed use Bootstrap for an earlier version of TiddlyWiki5. I 
> abandoned it for several reasons:
>
> * Bootstrap markup uses IDs to tie elements together, which doesn't work 
> in dynamic environments like TW5 where it's hard to ensure that IDs remain 
> unique
> * As Mario says, the JS code in Bootstrap is useless for TW5 because it 
> doesn't fit into the TW rendering structure
> * Bootstrap doesn't (or didn't when I was working with it) permit elements 
> like tabs to be resized
> * Bootstrap is incredibly fussy about elements needing to be direct 
> descendants of one another and so doesn't tolerate TW5's additional wrapper 
> elements
> * Bootstrap uses Less.css to generate CSS whereas in TW5 it makes more 
> sense to reuse the existing wikitext parsing pipeline
>
> TW5 still uses normalise.css, which is also a part of Bootstrap. It does a 
> great job of smoothing out the differences between browsers
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Eskha <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your nice answer.
>>
>> In fact, what I had in mind was to be able to create a theme (mainly an 
>> alternative page template) using CSS elements like the navbar, the span[n], 
>> the dropdown menu, the icons, ... from the Bootstrap CSS.
>> If I understand correctly your answer, I could still be able to do so by 
>> building and including a customize version of Bootsrap [1]  which should 
>> not override components created by the wikitext renderers. Is it correct ?
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> Eskha
>>
>> [1] http://getbootstrap.com/customize/
>>
>> Le mardi 17 septembre 2013 13:49:27 UTC+2, PMario a écrit :
>>
>>> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 9:11:42 AM UTC+2, Eskha wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As far as styles are concerned would it be possible to use twitter 
>>>> bootstrap CSS and derived themes inside TW5 or are there some technical 
>>>> difficulties doing so ?
>>>> (btw I think it was an option you mention when you have started TW5, 
>>>> wasn't it ?)
>>>>
>>>
>>> It was part of TW5, but imo it clashed with the structure created by the 
>>> wikitext renderers. ... For my taste twitter bootstrap is way to bloated 
>>> allready and it defines a concept, that is very different to TW5. eg: It 
>>> contains javascript, that handles sliders and tabs. But the TW tab and 
>>> slider handling is defined in a totally different way. Tabs and sliders 
>>> will be wikitext not html. 
>>>
>>> -m
>>>
>>
>
>
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> Jeremy Ruston
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