Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm still not sure how Bootstrap 2 is "killing" web2py. I think the only thing that defaults to Bootstrap 2 styling is the grid, but it now also includes Bootstrap 3 classes. However, it also includes a jQuery-UI theme and can be customized for other CSS frameworks via the "ui" argument (or via CSS using the existing classes). Standard forms don't default to Bootstrap at all and can be customized as desired via the formstyle argument. There is a bug applying formstyles to the verify password field in Auth register forms, but that is not Bootstrap specific (and there is a workaround).
It's also not clear how switching to a different framework would help. Other frameworks probably won't have built-in grids and Auth forms, so you would have to handle those things manually or via third party libraries anyway, which you can already do just as easily in web2py. I think it would be helpful to see examples of "brick walls" and how they would be handled more easily in another framework. Anthony On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:57:59 AM UTC-4, Gael Princivalle wrote: > > Hello Moustafa. > > I agree with you and hope that we'll have soon a fully Bootstrap 3 web2py > version. > > Il giorno venerdì 18 luglio 2014 21:17:34 UTC+2, Moustafa Mahmoud ha > scritto: >> >> I have been using web2py for 3 years know, and I was really impressed by >> it, I defended it in every discussion, even implemented all my projects >> using it and even convinced my Graduation Project Team to use it in our GP. >> However, as my skill increased and I began looking more into customizing my >> applications, I have hit a brick wall discovering how tightly bound web2py >> is to bootstrap2, I wanted to use bootstrap 3 but was faced with tons of >> problems. If I want to move to another front end framework then I >> discovered that it would be easier to use another framework because of the >> time and effort I would need to invest in modifying all parts of web2py >> that are tightly bound to bootstrap. >> This will result in making web2py a headache to me rather than my best >> friend. I am writing this message because I am really sad that an amazing >> framework like web2py is forcing me to consider an alternative because I do >> really feel it is constraining me at this point. >> Any help or ideas about that ? >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
