Re: Consistent forms in Conductor UI - Wiki page
Thank you, I absolutely agree with you and I added some reactions below
quotes.
On 3.8.2012 19:40, Matt Wagner wrote:
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 05:42:13PM +0200, Jaromír Coufal wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I just wrote some information on wiki-page about UI tasks regarding
> form unification:
>
>
https://www.aeolusproject.org/redmine/projects/aeolus/wiki/Consistent_for...
>
> My main question is about using tools like Simple Form and Bootstrap
> (they are *not* alternatives). I reviewed some advantages,
> disadvantages, provided links, so you can look for further
> information if you want to and if anybody has something to add /
> discuss, you are more than welcome :)
I think this task is overall a really fantastic thing to do. As you
noted previously, we're not even _close_ to consistent right now.
I've worked with formtastic in the past; it looks like simple_form
builds on that. The only downside I ran into is the difference in names
for many field types, which isn't really that big of a deal. If it makes
our lives easier, I'm all for it.
Actually I don't know formstatic project,
but as for Simple Form, there
is quite a rich library of field types to use and looking over them I
guess that names match pretty well to their types
(https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form/#mappingsinputs-available)
so it looks that they fixed this issue. Or did you mean something else?
I think you are already doing this, but for the sake of stating the
obvious, we should probably work with Katello to define a common
pattern for forms between apps. As you state on the wiki page, we can
probably use simple_form without requiring them to do the same (though
things like the login page might become special cases), but I think a
styling guide for forms that's consistent between projects would be
great.
Even obvious things are worth to be said, you never know :) And actually
this is really great point. I already had a call with Eric Helms and
Jason Rist about forms in Converge-UI (and this means also in Katello)
and it appears that they don't use any specific tool. I also told them
about my intention to work on forms and contributing to the library, so
I will stay in close cooperation with these guys in order to ensure that
the result is usable across projects.
As for the library use, I would like to see Converge-UI working in a way to:
1) define how the structure of HTML elements should look like (and let
implementation details on project itself)
2) provide CSS styles which ensure that forms (or in the future any
element) appear the same way across all projects
... (excluded some specific sections, as login, which are special cases)
So as you stated, I agree that it would be better to keep Simple Form
just for us and let Katello to decide how they will implement forms.
-- Matt
Thank you
--Jarda
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