Feature request: Material design theme

udiedrichsen commented 9 years ago

Hi,

I found w2ui today and I really like it. Congratulation, great work ! :+1:

Would be great a have a Material Design theme for it.

My css skill are very poor or even not existing. I a server only guy. Thats why I like this. You can program a UI instead of designing it :-)

vitmalina commented 9 years ago

I do not know what you mean by material design.

udiedrichsen commented 9 years ago

Material design is invented by google. Its the new design (UI) standard for Android 5.x

http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html#introduction-goals

Or another good example is: http://materializecss.com/getting-started.html

It's just a suggestion to improve your excellent framework.

aadrian commented 9 years ago

Would be great a have a Material Design theme for it.

There are many CSS frameworks, Twitter Bootstrap being one even more popular for non-mobile web apps. The main problem is that most of them don't simply require just a different CSS file but also require HTML and also JS code changes too.

As discussed here: https://github.com/vitmalina/w2ui/issues/888#issuecomment-102956445

another important aspect is accessibility (a11y). For Twitter Boostrap there's already a solution done by PayPal. For Material Design, I found none so far that would withstand an official a11y audit.

As mentioned in #888 a more efficient approach would be to:

move more properties in a base less file. TB has: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/less/variables.less where most variables are defined.It's easier to change only a few base variables instead of many color and size values.
better docs of those base variables and where do they play a role, in order for the community to be able to easier contribute themes
at first as an initial try, a Twitter Bootstrap integration would be better, since w2ui is for not mobile ready yet, and TB would help much more users for desktop web apps.

hansgru commented 9 years ago

+1 for a Bootstrap theme (not material design) since w2ui seems to target the desktop, not mobile in the actual version.

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