[Qa-debsources] [GSoc] Technology Discussion

[Matthieu Caneill]

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 03:28:35AM +0100, Aaron Delaney wrote:
> > flow
> 
> This was an odd brainfart. I meant to
> say purecss, due to its lack of js.
> However without a debian package this
> may be an issue. What do you think?

I think go for Bootstrap. From what I've seen, it's way more
mainstream, which in general means less problems. It does what we
want, and simply enough.
That being said, I don't know much about Purecss. If you have strong
arguments for it, I'm all ears :)

> > default content is the one of
> > the page initially fetched, while links either make the content of the
> > zones refreshed, or redirect the user to a new page when there is no
> > js. I don't know if it is straightforward to do.
> 
> Interesting idea, I imagine the most
> pragmatic soloution will involve breaking
> the componants of the site to more
> general modules. So the data needed to
> display the site will have an
> AJAX/websocket endpoint the dynamic
> client can connect to.

Yeah that's what the spa js libraries do for you.

> I imagine for this work we will need to
> run mocha or a similar testing library on
> the site. I cant think of way to do run
> these tests without a browser or node.

Depends on the amount of js. But yeah, things like mocha and selenium
are great for testing UIs.

> This will need to be looked into this
> week.

Yes, keep us in touch about your research!

What about my other email? I at least asked about an irc meeting
tomorrow.

Cheers,
--
Matthieu