Make form elements more sexy with jQuery about ghost

[matthojo]

With this I'm currently implementing the iCheck library but do we need it to be global? or just Settings page?

[matthojo]

Is this issue complete, or are we keeping it open until everything is finalised?

[JohnONolan]

Need a report on a few things:

• What's the weight of the library?
• Is it easy to work with?
• What areas have we implemented it in so far?
• Are we calling it on every page, or just in certain areas?
• Did you research/find any viable alternatives?
• Is the library being actively maintained?

[matthojo]

What's the weight of the library?

11kb

Is it easy to work with?

Very

What areas have we implemented it in so far?

Just the settings page checkboxes

Are we calling it on every page, or just in certain areas?

I'm currently only calling it in the settings page, but can put it globally very easily.

Did you research/find any viable alternatives?

Nope but can do if you like.

Is the library being actively maintained?

Yup, last commit 4 days ago. https://github.com/damirfoy/iCheck

[JohnONolan]

@ErisDS any objections? I don't like 11kb size, but tbh it does add a level of polish that's very desirable and generally uncommon which I think is fairly important. Maybe trial it for now and kill it if it gets in the way?

[matthojo]

I agree, it appears to be variable based on if retina / non-retina graphics are used.
I've got no problem trialing it.

[ErisDS]

As a developer, and not a designer, I believe that all of these sorts of things are tosh and that native checkboxes are best.
However, given that I will never win that argument, I don't see a problem with this particular library. My issue will come if you then want to use another separate library for selects or some other field.

[JohnONolan]

Cool - let's test it and see how it goes.

[matthojo]

Can this be closed now?

[JohnONolan]

@matthojo where have you implemented this that I can see it in action?

[matthojo]

settings page as the checkboxes.

[JohnONolan]

The plugin itself looks good - the implementation is a mess. We absolute don't want to use any 3rd party CSS files. We should choose a look and implement our own css properly for this.

I would suggest something similar to the "square" skin

But using Ghost blue, smaller boxes, and without using any images.