Can we Incorporate Bootstrap into Start Page? about thunderbird-website HOT 4 CLOSED

The start page loads every time someone starts the Thunderbird client. It needs to be as minimalist and quick-loading as possible. In fact I've been meaning to go back to it at some point and fix it so that it's just one http request by in-lining all the CSS and images into the page the way it used to be before they messed it up on the import to mozilla.org

Bootstrap is 141KB of minimized CSS. The whole start page right now is about ~200KB, so that's a 70% increase to the size of the page. This isn't significant for people on broadband, but for people who don't(still plenty of those out there) it's significant. It's also very significant in terms of our Cloudflare bandwidth usage, which is free atm, but I imagine there's some threshold where they would deem it abuse, so we probably shouldn't be too casual about it.

So if you just want the bootstrap CSS maybe, if you want the JS part then I really would argue against that because that will impact performance even after the page is cached.

The question is more, can we just do whatever layout you want without Bootstrap's overhead? The answer is most likely yes, and for the start page in particular it is best to avoid framework and library bloat.

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Just FYI, Bootstrap is found here: https://getbootstrap.com/

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It's a good question @Sancus - whether the layout I want can be accomplished without Bootstrap or some other library's added bulk. I'm still experimenting with what we have on the start page, as you can see in #30.

Is there any documentation for the website that I'm not aware of? It's pretty straightforward, but I'm not sure why the "

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Closing this, I'm up to speed.

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