bootstrap and responsive design

Hi

I think the introduction of bootstrap in orbeon 4.0 is great. Now, I wonder if there are any plans to replace form builder's table layout with bootstrap's grid layout. In my opinion, that would be a great improvement in order to support different devices and screen sizes, which is the primary scope for bootstrap as well.

Best regards, Björn

Björn,

We definitely want to introduce responsive design.

One issue is the current feature of "rowspans", which allows a grid
cell to span multiple rows. This is not supported in Bootstrap (which
uses spans). We are not sure if/how to handle this. Maybe revert to a
table layout if rowspans are used?

-Erik

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Maybe this would do the trick? The solution has a table in the spanning div but maybe some good CSS would fix this?

simulating rowspan with bootstrap grid

Cheers.
H.

Hi H.,

Thank you for sharing this. The trick used in this example is to create a sort-of sub-table, putting in a "cell" (e.g. span7) multiple <div class="row">. I think this could work for us; the logic to generate that markup doesn't seem trivial, but we'll take that as a challenge. I added a note to the corresponding issue (linked below), so we don't forget about this by the time we implement it. And again, thank you for the feedback!

https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/issues/70

Alex

As a slight aside I've written a CMS called Magneato that uses XForms for page editing. I didn't use Exist but a NoSQL database and Lucene for navigation and search. I've built forms using both Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation and both are pretty good for laying out XForms. Zurb has a responsive table but I'm not sure if this can coexist with Orbeon. Note that with Zurb you really need to be on IE 9+.

The main thing still lacking (I believe) on mobile devices is the ability for XForms to upload from the device, either images, video or GPS data. I built a demonstration application using Magneato for the International Red Cross and using portable devices in the field and the ability to upload straight off the device was a requirement (the Javarosa project sits in the portable device/XForms space too).

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