Question thread #74

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

Comments

[roadrunnertwice]

What are the impediments to making the “site style” responsive/mobile-friendly?

I know those pages aren’t built with S2, so I’m guessing there’s some issues with markup being scattered around a bunch of places. But is it something where you could just go through and do it if you had the time, or is there some kind of gnarly dependency that needs to get dealt with first? (Like, is it related to the bml -> tt transition?)

[pauamma]

I think some of both. What's needed is both to convert the remaining BML pages to TT, and to make the pre-Foundation TT pages Foundation-aware to make them responsive. However, that requires developper (staff+volunteer) energy and availability, both of which appear to be in short supply lately.

[roadrunnertwice]

Thanks! Is there a canonical place to track which site pages are in which state?

[pauamma]

I think all files under $LJHOME/htdocs or its subdirectories with a .bml extension are BML pages that need to be converted to TT+Foundation. Regarding pre-Foundation TT pages, perhaps something like grep -Lr foundation $LJHOME/views is the answer.

[roadrunnertwice]

Also, I’ve been messing with some S2 stuff lately and living in vanilla CSS heck, and was surprised to learn the non-S2 styles in dw-free use scss. Would it be beneficial for S2 to compile scss? Imo it would make layouts more maintainable, but idk if that interacts with any security concerns (and have no idea how feasible it is to DOS a sass compiler with malicious code).

[pauamma]

I'm not an S2 or SCSS expert, but that looks like a good idea to me. Perhaps ask your question in dw_styles?