I recently started using SASS and right now I need Font Awesome for one of my project but I want to use it offline. I know that I could simply use CDN (as I did) but I just don't know how to use it offline so it's pretty annoying :D
Well, basically you just download the resources, add the .js/css-links to your .html and use the icons ;-)
It's all described on their website - but the choice of options (CSS or SVG) might make it look more difficult than it is...
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I want to use onsen for a mobile web app. Most people seem to use it with phone gap/cordova so that the result can be installed as an app.
Am I going to have performance issues if I use it for a website?
The minified JS alone is 350kb and the css is almost 200kb. I suppose I can gzip it but I just want to make sure I'm not misusing the tool and doing something crazy.
Hmm actually
https://cdn.rawgit.com/OnsenUI/OnsenUI-dist/2.0.0-rc.15/js/onsenui.min.js - 85KB
https://cdn.rawgit.com/OnsenUI/OnsenUI-dist/2.0.0-rc.15/css/onsenui.css - 3.2KB
https://cdn.rawgit.com/OnsenUI/OnsenUI-dist/2.0.0-rc.15/css/onsen-css-components.css - 25KB
These are the only 3 files which you actually need to use Onsen UI.
If you want to use something like angular, react etc there are additional js files which you may need, but only if you want to use the frameworks.
And of course for the css - if you want to use some sort of icons either font awesome icons or something similar you would need to add those too, but if you're not using them you don't need to serve them.
As for performance issues
for loading you can concatenate the files to make less requests (you said you will be gzipping them so I guess you will probably also be doing this)
after everything is loaded I don't think you will be able to notice a difference between the app and the webpage.
I may be missing something, but I think this is pretty much it. Basically just include the things which you need - no need to include angular bindings if you're not using angular for example :D
I am trying out VirtoCommerce for a work project. I am impressed with all the technologies being used. However the community seems rather small.
In VirtoCommerce, what file should I choose to add a theme?
Thanks for any help.
You can take any of the existing themes as a starting point to creating your own. You can also download skeleton theme, that contains all the basic controls.
I've been looking around at some CSS frameworks and I really like the look of the Groundwork CSS framework because it has a nice responsive layout. However I downloaded the source code and I'm a bit lost. I'm used to using Twitter Bootstrap and and I really love it's documentation (the instructions on scaffolding are helpful to beginners), bit I don't really know how to use Groundwork.
How do I get started with using the Groundwork CSS framework?
Groundwork, like Bootstrap, is a web-development framework, not just a set of CSS docs. They both include a set of style-sheets, java-script files, misc icons etc, and one or more HTML docs to bring it all together.Installation is simple; download the framework, rename the folder to "MyCoolNewSite", start editing.
As Michal stated, the "index/html" doc that comes with the framework has lots to look at to help you get started. They also have what looks to be pretty solid documentation on their site, starting here: http://groundwork.sidereel.com/?url=grid
The site has now changed to: http://groundworkcss.github.io/
I've been searching google for a while to determine the most coder-friendly example boxes.
I'm wanting to share varying forms of ECMA script (JS for example) etc that provides the user with color coding and a simple way of copying the code. I know there are several out there, but I wanted to get some opinions from SOF since you guys probably have good experience with code.
so- What's the code-sharing tool you [would] use?
the solution
I ended up using Gist for complete snippets and am using Syntax Highlighter for *incomplete * code samples. There's a Drupal plugin for the Syntax Highlighter, but I dare say it's more of a pain to figure out the plugin than it is to just do things the old fashioned way (old fashioned being like 5 years ago..)
I use http://jsfiddle.net/
Color coding — check
HTML, CSS, JS — check
Live demo — check
gist has syntax highlighting and users can download the files separately, as a zip archive or using git. You can embed the files easily on other sites.
Additionally, the site tracks changes and other users can add comments or fork a gist to change it themselves.
I love compass (SASS) and HAML. I've been using staticmatic for building static web pages. Staticmatic seams outdated (no updates, bugs). What are the alternatives?
What I would like:
$ preview .
> Server started ad port XXXX
> Now you can use Compass and HAML
:). So... no configuratio, no directory structure, just haml and sass files.
I am currently using Compass/Sass/Haml with middleman. https://github.com/tdreyno/middleman It is very easy to use, and runs a sinatra in the background so you can see your changes live in your web browser.
After you are done editing and previewing your markup it builds static HTML from your stack of Compass/Sass/Haml. See https://github.com/tdreyno/middleman/wiki for usage.
This requires no conf at all except to tell it which templating engines you are using at setup so I think it is exactly what you are looking for.
You can try jekyll. I think it doesn't work with sass and haml out of the box but you can look at plugins
Don't forget Nanoc. While it is a little involved, it has some slightly more powerful features than StaticMatic. It does depend on a directory however. :/
There are just a ton of static generators around, most of them in Ruby. I'm planning to use Frank for the next few static projects.
It uses Tilt to support a ton of template engines
It has a concept of layouts, which go in a separate layouts folder, and templates can have a metadata header, but other than that it's very minimal.