Owen: Ahh, I didn't realize that Bootstrap had a customizer. I figured it had to be something along those lines. It's a shame they don't indicate in the comments that it was a custom version built by them at least :S. Everyone: I also agree with Owen about there being a discussion about the move from the existing Bootstrap 2 to a newer version. I figure the look, feel, and usability of Koha is a rather high priority. The browser requirements are also an important consideration (at least to me), since we have quite a few clients using IE8 (which is dropped in Bootstrap 4), if I recall correctly. Bootstrap 3 dropped support for IE7, although one could workaround that with the following https://github.com/coliff/bootstrap-ie7 (which I've done in DSpace 3+). I don't know if someone is planning for something similar with Bootstrap 4 or even if something similar is possible. I know, as a community, that we're not that keen on supporting older versions of IE, so I understand if that's a burden I need to take on individually (or if it's the straw that breaks the camel's back and I start refusing to support it as well). Owen: Regarding the speed, did you find there was a noticeable difference in the speed of the custom CSS vs the full CSS? Lately, I've been testing page load speeds (for a different system), and it seems that the load times of minified CSS are pretty trivial. For example, at http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/, it took 65ms to load 23.9KB http://getbootstrap.com/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css, which appears to be the full Bootstrap 3.3.5. The full file for 2.2.2 (https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/2.2.2/css/bootstrap.min.css) is even smaller than that one. At .065 of a second, I think that's pretty fast. I think if we're going to get speed improvements at this point, they're going to come from Plack/mod_perl. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007
-----Original Message----- From: koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel- bounces@lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard Sent: Friday, 4 September 2015 10:08 PM To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Bootstrap 2.2.2 in the staff client
do we gain much from having a stripped BS build? is it worth the inconvenience to developers?
We gain a faster system. I think that's worth inconvenience to developers.
-- Owen
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