I am okay with the proposal.
FWIW I had previously been thinking we should talk about either going
this direction or at least widening the fixed width.
drew
On 05/07/2014 10:42 AM, James Wennmacher wrote:
Hi,
I propose that we change the Respondr theme to be fluid width (e.g. full
width) instead of the fixed-width format where Bootstrap have a
fixed-width for the rows and centers the content in the viewport for
devices >= 768px (see http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid). We can
consider asking the uportal-user community, but from talking to a few
people it seems there was not a strong design decision to limit the
viewing to the fixed-widths<http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid>. I
personally have found it annoying and limiting. Bootstrap's main site
uses fixed-width and so do many other bootstrap sites, but I'm told many
other bootstrap sites do not.
Advantages of full width:
* Can display more information wider, especially with the
preponderance of wide-screen monitors where height is often limited
so you do more vertical scrolling.
* With Bootstrap's general tendency to make items bigger so they are
more easily accessed by a finger on a mobile device, on a desktop
and some landscape-oriented tablets it would be helpful to have the
greater width to display content since you typically have 2 or more
columns.
* Puts Respondr on-par with Universality in this aspect.
Disadvantages of full width:
* If you are restricted to widths of <750px, 750px, 970px, and 1170px
it makes testing easier since you don't have to figure out how to
handle widths outside that restricted set.
To use full width is actually very easy. We replace the class
'container' with 'container-fluid' on the markup generated by the XSL.
We could make it fairly easy to configure in the XSL with a default of
full width.
Thoughts?
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