From: Lester C. <le...@ls...> - 2014-07-29 06:19:25
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On 29/07/14 06:07, Gary Cunningham-Lee wrote: > bootswatch_themes.css isn't meant to be a stand-alone theme; it was just > meant to be a means of organizing all the Bootswatch themes together in > styles/bootswatch_themes/options/ rather than having them sprinkled > through the other theme files. The problem with having the correct path > is that now bootstrap.css is loaded twice - once in its default form and > once as the Bootswatch variant. This adds over 100kb to the site display > file transfers. The reality here is that bootstrap is simply a very bad design? While the way it works is to be commended, the sheer size of the .css and that fact that it is essentially 'flat' does not lend itself to making elements of the style selectable. Switching to 'less' or one of the other css compilers may allow a means of tailoring colours, sizes and other aspects, but is 100kb+ really necessary? Personally I've hacked my version so I can get back nice coloured icons and make the base font selectable, but in general fine tuning a bootstrap theme is a time consuming exercise and I'm sure that there is a much easier way to create a responsive frame on which to build selectable themes? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk |