Pure bootstrap

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Pure bootstrap

Post by NC Software » Tue Aug 09, 2016 3:14 pm

I would love to have a complete solution that is built completely around bootstrap and not all this if/else going on and shoe horned bootstrap implementation that makes this way too complex. Abstraction on top of bootstrap - please just commit to bootstrap and make this easier on all, you and us. Being too flexible just makes things harder for all.
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Re: Pure bootstrap

Post by NC Software » Tue Aug 09, 2016 3:39 pm

But whoever did the CSS did a nice job on the bootstrap wrapper. I just prefer instead of CSS abstractions this was in the HTML directly and it would be easier to know what's what. Steep learning curve getting GOLD themed and styled.
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Re: Pure bootstrap

Post by mazhar » Wed Aug 10, 2016 1:36 am

Bootstrap defiantly makes it easy to develop responsive front end without much knowledge of CSS but it does take away the HTML semantics. You end up with HTML classes strongly coupled to bootstrap. For example a css class called .leftColumn is much more meaningful then .md-col-3. Anyway the way we did responsive in Gold is due to backward compatibility. We had the goal to make sure same HTML works with both Bootstrap and normal themes. In order to relabel bootstrap classes we had to go with less based approach where we extended bootstrap to work with our html classes.

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