[Owncloud] About Bootstrap and ownCloud

[Bernhard Posselt]

I still need to do the proper js porting for the ApptemplateAdvanced 
javascript code ;)
I've factored out the useful stuff and included it into the 
appframework, the documentation is already up to date but the template 
isnt. So please wait a bit longer or read the docs ;)

On 03/20/2013 05:47 PM, Jörn Friedrich Dreyer wrote:
> TL;DR Concentrate on jQuery & AngularJS
>
> On 20.03.2013 13:57, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> 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
>