[Koha-devel] OPAC themes

[Mason James]

On 2012-10-7, at 5:27 AM, Ian Walls wrote:

> I believe Koha needs to keep maximum standards compliance and backwards compatibility, as we often do encounter older hardware and software in the line of international duty.
> 
> However, we do have the mechanisms in place to support multiple templates. The chief difficulty with using this feature has been keeping up to date with the changes in passed variables.  If we rigourized the variables available on any given page, and agreed not to make changes to that model except with major releases (and document the changes thoroughly), it would be a lot easier to develop and maintain different templates that meet different needs.
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> We could provide, by default, a very slick Bootstrap-based template, as well as a lean, quick-loading, highly compatible template.
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> 



wow!, that an awesome idea Ian, (something i had not thought of)

i'll have a go at this task, in my spare time... :)



> In general, I think we need to be very cognizant of what minimum requirements we assign to Koha, both for client and server, in order to make it was easy to adopt and use as possible.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> On Oct 5, 2012 7:42 PM, "Paul" <paul.a at aandc.org> wrote:
> At 12:11 PM 10/6/2012 +1300, Mason James wrote:
> [snip]
> so, the bad news is that *currently* bootstrap doesn't run on debian-stable's firefox... until the next debian release
> 
> Also, anyone setting up a library "kiosk" using older hardware (as a charity on a non-existent budget, we have several of them) is going to be limited to Firefox 3.5 (possibly 3.6 built on Gecko 1.9.2?) regardless of later releases. I could dig out my notes, but from memory you can't get a more recent Firefox (12+, now 15?) to work on a Pentium (or at least with any degree of ease, reliability, etc) and I also seem to remember that we came to the same conclusion with Chrome. Opera seemed to be the exception, but is not (statistically) popular.
> 
> While trying to remain in the realm of political correctness, many Koha users seem to be from "less developed" parts of the world where older hardware is more common. IE6 is also running into the bottom percentile range, but still has a good representation in some countries ... I personally believe that Bootstrap could genuinely offer a lot of potential, but perhaps not for all users?
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> Best - Paul
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cheers, Mason
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