What is the status of this separation of web2py and bootstrap?
Regards Em sábado, 18 de junho de 2016 14:27:41 UTC+1, Massimo Di Pierro escreveu: > > This is a big can of worms. CSS was created to decouple style info from > structural info (HTML). Turns out most CSS today dictate both a class > naming convention and an HTML structure. You cannot take an arbitrary piece > of HTML and apply an arbitrary CSS. Moreover adding class names is often > not sufficient. Every time you change the CSS framework you have to change > the HTML. > > This is a problem for all frameworks (like web2py) that generate HTML for > you. They must know what CSS framework you use. In web2py we support > multiple formstyle(s): > > > table3cols, table2cols, divs, ul, bootstrap (2), bootstrap3_stacked, > bootstrap3_inline, inline > > > as you can imagine this is turning into a maintenance nightmare. This is > against the original spirit. This is why I believe we need a new approach > to this problem and a new library for form generation. > > > Massimo > > > On Saturday, 18 June 2016 07:47:42 UTC-5, Dominic Mayers wrote: >> >> I am just starting to learn web2py and I want to better understand the >> issue. Is the issue simply that Bootstrap 3 is not backward compatible >> with v2.x and therefore we cannot use Bootstrap3 with the templates in >> web2py that have been created with Bootstrap 2 ? The issue seems to be >> bigger than that because we would need to modify "all parts of web2py that >> are tightly bound to bootstrap", but what does this mean? Of course, we >> expect a coupling between the view and the remainder of the code. The code >> has to provide data as expected in the view. There is no way this can be >> avoided, even in a loosely coupled framework. So, is this the only issue? I >> would like to know if there was a fundamental flaw in the design of >> web2py? >> >> On Friday, 18 July 2014 15:17:34 UTC-4, Moustafa Mahmoud wrote: >>> >>> 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.
