New UI & licencing

[Paul Nathan]

I have zero opinion about particular front-end technologies, but I really
hope that something GPL3+ or compatible with same is used, along with
"boring" technology. I would rather have plain CSS than the latest
contraption which will be out of date in 12 months (front end frameworks
seem to churn with appalling speed).



On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Tymoteusz Jankowski <
tymoteusz.jankowski at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to:
> https://www.polymer-project.org/resources/faq.html#browsersupport
> Polymer doesn't support IE8.
>
> +1 for LESS|SASS
> PatternFly - I don't know that, i get familiar with it soon.
>
> Ok, so there is no obstacle like licence or others then I think I'll check
> templates soon and all the things
> you point it in the answers to make new UI happen.
>
> Probabbly i'll stick with Bootstrap because it'd be much wiser, I mean:
> - it's less drastic change then Polymer
> - it is|was used already in Kallithea
> - it's more mature then Polymer (though more boring IMHO ;P)
>
>
>
> On 19 January 2015 at 15:51, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/19/2015 09:31 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>
>>> ... LESS ... PatternFly ...
>>>
>>
>> That sounds very good and might be true. I am also sure that other smart
>> people out there would disagree and that there also could be other good
>> solutions ;-)
>>
>> I think it primarily should be decided by people with front-end
>> experience who will do the work and deliver a solution.
>>
>> I think the big question is if we should reimplement the UI completely.
>> That would be awesome, but it would also be a huge high-risk investment. I
>> wouldn't bet on that.
>>
>> Can we agree that it makes sense to do it gradually, with the first steps
>> going towards getting a more clean bootstrap based UI as outlined?
>>
>> /Mads
>>
>
>
>
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