Agreed.
But I'm not sure that it's in our best interest to re-invent something
that's already being done in pure javascript frameworks. This is one of the
reasons we designed Errai UI, so that it could support pure JS/CSS, and
developers could use whatever grid system/responsive layouts they want.
However, there is a good chance that a young new project starting up will
be addressing creating re-usable javascript widgets. In which case, we may
actually see a widget library come about for Errai. That would be where
this belongs, I imagine, and should be something to bring up then.
I see value in this, but I think the new widgets project (or the Errai
module supporting that) is the place for this.
~Lincoln
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Jonathan Fuerth <jfuerth(a)redhat.com>wrote:
On 2012-12-19, at 3:44 AM, Erik Jan de Wit wrote:
Hi,
Bootstrap responsive UI combined with Errai UI works very well. I've used
this in a few demos already actually.
Right, but what I was thinking about was to help a developer user it more
easy instead of creating his own css and html (or use what twitter
bootstrap provides) we include a grid concept like twitter bootstrap. For
example:
<r:Row>
<r:Column size="12">
<g:Label>Level 1 of Column</g:Label>
<r:Row>
<r:Column size="6">
<g:Label>Level 2</g:Label>
</r:Column>
<r:Column size="6">
<g:Label>Level 2</g:Label>
</r:Column>
</r:Row>
</r:Column>
</r:Row>
That would be really useful for people who use GWT UiBinder and/or
programmatic layout of widgets. This is definitely something we support,
but we're angling toward ErraiUI for our demos and stuff. I think with
ErraiUI, special row and column widgets for Bootstrap wouldn't be
super-useful.
One thing I definitely did run into with Bootstrap was that it's
super-awkward to use their jQuery addons in an ErraiUI project. All of the
CSS is reusable, but the logic in the plugin is difficult to include and
invoke in a natural way. I ended up recreating the popover plugin code in
the Grocery List demo:
https://github.com/errai/errai/blob/master/errai-jpa/demos/errai-jpa-demo...
It would be cool to have a module that provides the Bootstrap stylesheets
plus GWT reimplementations of all the jQuery plugins. That would help
everyone no matter it they're doing programmatic, UiBinder, or ErraiUI.
-Jonathan
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