Out of the box, WebBlocks is a platform based on modern web technologies for building full-featured, responsive sites suited for all viewports including desktops, tablets and mobile devices. It leverages existing best-in-breed web tools, defines semantics based on modern web standards and includes a large suite of UI elements and Javascript interactivity libraries. However, WebBlocks is a lot more than just a set of semantics, elements and libraries. At it's core, it is a highly modular toolkit that can be customized to meet business needs, fitted to different development paradigms and integrated into existing web solutions.
Documentation for WebBlocks is available within the doc folder or online at:
http://ucla.github.com/WebBlocks/doc
WebBlocks is currently in BETA.
This designation signifies that the overall architecture and semantics of WebBlocks will be preserved moving forward, meaning that future updates will be backwards-compatible. That said, there are several outstanding issues that exist such as IE compatibility and the presentation of some WebBlocks elements.
For a complete list of known problems and planned features, as well as to report any issues with WebBlocks, please see the issue tracker: https://github.com/ucla/WebBlocks/issues
WebBlocks is open-source software licensed under the BSD 3-clause license. The
full text of the license may be found in the LICENSE file.
WebBlocks is a collaborative project involving the University of California, the Mobile Web Framework community, and others. The toolkit is a product of its collaborators, both those who have participated in discussion and those who have contributed code.
The integration manager for WebBlocks is Eric Bollens ebollens@ucla.edu.
WebBlocks may leverage a number of external packages:
- Efx - BSD License - http://github.com/ebollens/efx
- jQuery - MIT License - http://jquery.com
- Modernizr - MIT or BSD License - http://modernizr.com
- Respond.js - MIT or GPLv2 License - https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond
- Twitter Bootstrap - Apache License - http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap
- Selectivizr - MIT License - http://selectivizr.com
WebBlocks also uses the following software directly within its build process:
- Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang.org
- Rubygems - http://rubygems.org
- Bundler - http://gembundler.com
- Rake - http://rake.rubyforge.org
- Node.js - http://nodejs.org
- NPM - https://npmjs.org
- SASS - http://sass-lang.com
- Compass - http://compass-style.org
- rb-fsevent - https://rubygems.org/gems/rb-fsevent
- systemu - https://rubygems.org/gems/systemu
- uglifycss - https://npmjs.org/package/uglifycss
- uglify-js - https://npmjs.org/package/uglify-js
A sincere thanks to all of these authors for making their fine work available.