+1 On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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