Some background There was a post on this list about converting the Tapestry example to use Twitter Bootstrap. I had never heard of the project so I looked and discovered it's basically a grid based CSS layout system created by Twitter and there are a number of other grid based CSS systems out there.
The basic idea is you mark your elements with class names that describe where in the grid the element goes. Many of the grid systems (including Bootstrap) are responsive. This means the layout can change based on the device so the same page can work well on desktop, tablet and phone. These CSS frameworks also have a complete set of CSS that result in a reasonably styled page. Bootstrap uses Less to generate the CSS. The common theme is you have some markup structure, CSS and sometimes javascript to create common elements such as buttons and navigation. Bootstrap seemed like a good way to build prototypes and simple websites that did not look like they were designed by a programmer. At the time Bootstrap was 1.x and I developed some components that used it. When the Bootstrap developers created a 2.x branch they started over. Of course the 2.0 version is better but not backward compatible. That branch was released a few days ago. I wanted to release about the same time hence the early alpha designation. So what is/was Tapestry-Bootstrap? The original idea was to create a set of components that could be used along with the Twitter Bootstrap framework. The 2.0 version of Twitter Bootstrap has caused me to rethink that idea and the new vision is a framework for transforming the look and feel of existing components by adapting their output to various HTML frameworks. Currently I'm only interested in the Twitter Bootstrap but It because obvious a flexible architecture needed to track changes and support existing components without rewriting much code. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
