Re: [Exist-development] I am working on adding the responsive elements from bootstrap to the eXist app templates

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

Hey Loren,

> Can you send me what you found out?  Or can we get on a call tomorrow to discuss?

I didn't really find out all that much - I just read the same
bootstrap docs page about responsive design as you linked to, and put
my work thus far into github - the repo is
https://github.com/joewiz/hsg3.  (I haven't worked on the menus all
that much.)

You raise a great point about the menus.  But a word of caution:
overhauling the CSS that drives the eXist site to use bootstrap CSS
could be a major undertaking, especially since it was just redone (and
paid for, I believe).  If you can keep the changes narrowly focused on
getting the menus to work with touch screens (that have no concept of
'hover'), you may be able to get away without too much disruption.

Changing/adding to the bootstrap templates used in eXide will
obviously be a lot easier, since those templates just use stock
bootstrap styling.

Another aspect of responsive design is having the page layout
elegantly reflow for different screen sizes.  A tool that helps
illustrate this is
http://dfcb.github.com/Responsivator/?site=exist-db.org/exist/apps/doc/.

Joe

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Loren Cahlander
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> Joe,
>
> Can you send me what you found out?  Or can we get on a call tomorrow to discuss?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Loren Cahlander
> Principal
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>
>
> On Feb 27, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Joe Wicentowski <jo...@gm...> wrote:
>
>>> We are not using the responsive elements from bootstrap:
>>> http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html#responsive
>>
>> I've actually just been working with the "bootstrap-responsive"
>> extensions - to bring responsive design to history.state.gov.  Since
>> the responsive stuff adds weight to an app (an extra .js and .css
>> file), perhaps eXide should provide two bootstrap templates: bootstrap
>> (plain), and bootstrap (responsive).
>>
>> I agree that the docs app should be as "responsive" as possible.
>>
>>> After I figure this out, I will post my results.
>>
>> Nice!
>>
>> Joe
>