Default libraries in Magento

[paales]

The biggest hurdle of the current Magento installation is creating a consistent whole for a shop. The default installation in consistent throughout, but when you start installing modules from third parties everything gets messy. This is not because the third parties do a bad job, but because there aren't any default solutions (libraries, css classes, html components, etc.)

Twitter bootstrap is a great example and set of standards how to do things. Create the such a theme yourself you might say, but besides the work involved, it isn't the problem that a consistent theme is impossible to create, but making all modules compatible is. Having a great set of defaults lets module developers build their modules in a standard way without having to resort to their own solutions.

Especially in the Components section and Javascript Plugin section there are a lot of interesting ideas that greatly enrich the possibilities for developers.

It would be also great if we had default libraries for:
Lightboxes (fancybox is great)
Nivo Slider

The point is not that the libraries should be used throughout Magento, but they should be available in the system so that other developers will use them.

[magento-team]

@paales
Thank you for the feedback.
It seems, that you're talking mostly about the front-end development. We do acknowledge necessity to standardize that area. In fact, there is already a tech track, which aims to improve the situation -- transition to the jQuery as a primary JavaScript library. It does make sense to also cover CSS and HTML along with the JavaScript. Active work in that direction has already been started, stay tuned.

Closing the ticket