Re: [xwiki-devs] UI Standards for now and the future

Hi. I'm thinking about this topic for weeks, and it is difficult to me to make a choice, simply because I always focus on drawbacks, which all proposals have. There is no perfect choice here. But there is probably a most realistic one. My proposal is the following: - We still propose some standards like the Vertical Align Form ( http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/VerticalForms ). Because we like it. - We still propose some of our own CSS classes because we need them. - People are allowed to use any Bootstrap feature they want. They are packaged with Flamingo. - When we upgrade to a new version of Bootstrap, it's the responsibility of the developers to fix their applications if they are broken. - We need to update http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FrontendResources - The theme Application will be skin-dependent (because of the preview), and because some Theme variables have sense only on the CSS framework we use in the skin. Moreover, some color themes are good looking on some skins and ugly on some others. Example: here a color theme http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/FlamingoColorTheme - screenshot on Flamingo: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Extension/FlamingoColorTheme… -> good looking - screenshot on Colibri: http://tof.canardpc.com/view/903b37a6-64c8-4ccd-9a02-d34fc1027266.jpg -> ugly It does not make sense to propose that same color theme for both skins. I do NOT propose: - to add a namespace to the Bootstrap classes, because it implies to modify the bootstrap sources (JavaScript + LESS code), which must be maintained each time we upgrade to a new minor version of Bootstrap. - to create our standards, simply because it is the business of Bootstrap, and we do not have the manpower to do the same thing as well. The drawback of this solution is that it might be broken if Bootstrap breaks the retro-compatibility in the next versions. That is my thoughts. I think it is important to all agree on this, because we would like to have the Flamingo Theme Application for 6.2. Thanks, Guillaume 2014-07-02 15:19 GMT+02:00 Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau < gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com&gt;gt;: