I think the assumption that smaller is better is a fair one, and as you contribute so much to the front-end of Koha, I can definitely appreciate you wanting to make whatever performance improvements you can where you can. I agree that the speed of the interface is a higher priority than the ease of the developers' workflow. If you're happy to move forward on a Bootstrap upgrade, I think that's great. As a developer that does bits and pieces on the front and back, I'd appreciate a clearer picture of what's in our version of Bootstrap and what isn't, but I'm not going to make a fuss. For example, the .text-success class that sparked my original email is so trivial. I think the Bootstrap we have had has been great, but if it can be clearer what we have access to and what we don't, that would be even better. Cheers, 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: Tuesday, 8 September 2015 10:28 PM To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Bootstrap 2.2.2 in the staff client
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:32 AM, David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> wrote:
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.
Newer versions do, for what it's worth.
Owen: Regarding the speed, did you find there was a noticeable difference in the speed of the custom CSS vs the full CSS?
I didn't test speed differences, I just worked on the assumption that smaller is better. I think shaving off every byte we can is going to add up to speed improvements.
I think if we're going to get speed improvements at this point, they're going to come from Plack/mod_perl.
As a mostly-front-end guy who can't contribute to server-side speed improvements I consider it my job to make whatever performance improvements I can where I can. There's definitely more we can do, and I will continue to argue that we need to make the speed of the interface a higher priority than the ease of the developers' workflow.
That said, I'm anxious to move forward on a Bootstrap upgrade, not least because it should be clearer to everyone what's in Bootstrap and what isn't.
-- Owen
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