Re: [Tiki-devel] Bootstrap vs jquery mobile

[Gary Cunningham-L. <ga...@cu...>]

The number of columns in Bootstrap's grid is set by a variable, so it'd
be possible to have a number other than 12 and compile a stylesheet for
a 1-4-1 arrangement. But if you were having other problems, I suppose it
wouldn't be worth the trouble.

-- Gary

On 11/29/2013 2:11 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
> Gary Cunningham-Lee wrote:
>> Tiki's CSS has long needed a major cleanup and going
>> Bootstrap-compatible is a good way to focus the effort, with the added
>> benefits of producing responsive layout and selectors that will be
>> familiar to the increasing number of designers who know Bootstrap. It'd
>> be helpful if you could be specific about Bootstrap's unmet claims.
> The missing bit there is 'fluid' layout. While a 12 column fixed grid may seem 
> more than adaquate, none of my existing layouts looked good when the side 
> modules are shoehorned into 1/6 or 1/4 columns. I'm normally on a 1/3/1 
> proportion. It is amazing how 1/4/1 just looks wrong where the side bars are 
> designed to fill 20% of the screen!
> Also I could not get the 'responsive' element to work reliably but since the 
> basic layout did not work I moved on rather than investigating.
> 
>> I imagine the icon font component will be optional as the look may not
>> be to everyone's taste, though this hasn't been discussed much yet.
> I've created 'colourstrap' as a port of bootstrap but replacing fontawsome with 
> a build of the 'silk' con set, and tools to allow gnome or one of the other icon 
> families to be converted to sprites. But it's not really ready for exposure 
> since it was shelved. At that time I was looking for colour icons that matched 
> the ckeditor colour icon set for a consistent layout.
> 
>> If you're referring to ZURB's Ink, it does look pretty good as a
>> "Bootstrap for newsletters", and being MIT licensed and compact, maybe
>> it could be made part of Tiki.
> No ... http://ink.sapo.pt/
> Hand not found the Zurb one, but then I was looking for 'fluid' layout and it 
> looks like surb is still 12 column fixed grid.
>