[Owncloud] About Bootstrap and ownCloud

[Jörn Friedrich Dreyer]

TL;DR Concentrate on jQuery & AngularJS

On 20.03.2013 13:57, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:
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> And specific to ownCloud, I would be very careful about these things
> at this premature stage, because the design of ownCloud is still very
> much in the works. Not many apps have fully transitioned to what I’d
> say is the design direction we’re going for (namely it’s only News and
> Notes for now, and even they are not completely finished and working).
> We still have lots of JS and CSS we don’t actually use or are looking
> into abolishing. We need to transition all apps to »the new style«. We
> still need to simplify a lot.
I don't want to offend anyone, but I'd like to give my personal opinione
here, too. I think the current JS code is quite horrible. It is
inconsistent and has grown and been rewritten several times. I just
recently submitted a PR that cleans up usage of the jquery fileupload
library.

Fact is we are already using jQuery and it helps a lot with browser
inconsistencies, animations and the fancy stuff. The AppTemplateAdvanced
shows an example of how apps can use AngularJS. And I assume any apps
not already using these two will slowly be ported to them.

So with these two frameworks we already have a path for future
development. The two together solve 80% of our problems and we can
concentrate on solving the 20% left - which happen to be the interesting
problems.

Nothing is set in stone here. Whoever submits working code will be
embraced, I guess.

Happy coding!

Jörn

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