[PATCH 03/51] template: Add bootstrap to the base template

Finucane, Stephen stephen.finucane at intel.com
Wed Sep 9 23:45:44 AEST 2015


Bootstrap is a bit of a hammer and probably unnecessary for a site design as simple as this. It's a mostly-static website with little to no CSS3 and only the bare minimum of JavaScript. I also think it's a fair assumption that people using patchwork are working on PC-class devices with an evergreen browser. This means we're not taking advantage of the things that Bootstrap offers: responsive design, mobile first design, browser compatibility etc. I can find countless blogs that would suggest Bootstrap is pretty much unneeded in this case.

*However*, while I dabble in webdev I am by no means a front-end developer. I may also be suffering from Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome. Updating the site with a minimal amount of frameworks (say, HTML5 Bootstrap + JQuery + custom CSS) may well be more trouble than it's worth. For this reason, and this reason alone:

Acked-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen.finucane at intel.com>


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