I remember Massimo saying a little while ago that someone had suggest modifying the alert flash (response.flash) display a while back—before bootstrap was used in web2py—and that it wasn't well received by the community.
Now with bootstrap I recommend we add in stackoverflow style alerts.
{{if response.flash:}}<header>
<div class="alert alert-block fade in">
<button type="button" class="close"
data-dismiss="alert">×</button>
<p>{{=response.flash}}</p>
</div>
</header>
{{pass}}
Thoughts?
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