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Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#51
I know this is a Bootstrap tool, which means it has baggage.

But if something like this existed for email, I would buy it in a snap. I have yet to find a desktop tool that can make decent responsive html emails, and that is one of the main strengths that Bootstrap should offer. Skip the JQ efects.

Perhaps you can make a email mode that is JS free, strips out the unused CSS, and inlines the remaining rules?

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#52
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Nice. Bootstrap 4 demo is available at: http://v4.pingendo.com/playground.html

I got welcomed with the "Your browser is not supported, please use either Chrome or Safari". Sorry guys, but if your little app doesn't work in Firefox, I don't care about it, it's probably not worth time to even look at it.

It's an offline program, I wouldn't judge it too heavily off the quality of the online demo

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#53
post #34

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Nice. Bootstrap 4 demo is available at: http://v4.pingendo.com/playground.html

I got welcomed with the "Your browser is not supported, please use either Chrome or Safari". Sorry guys, but if your little app doesn't work in Firefox, I don't care about it, it's probably not worth time to even look at it.

It's a free program that is supposed to be used offline anyway.

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Please

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#54
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It's unfair of me, but I'm always turned off when I see a desktop app that works on multiple platforms. That irrationally soured my first impression, because I think it otherwise looks like a great tool.

What? How on earth multiplatform support could be a bad thing?

If the developer were to have made a swift version for Mac, a C# version for Windows and a C++ version for Linux, that would be very bad. A startup simply cannot reliably keep all up to date, and the product would suffer.

If they wrote it in Java and in that way claim multiple platforms, I daresay it would be even worse, on all platforms.

If they used a tool that did the conversion for them, it would likely be a security and usability disaster, even though I need sources for that.

So a bias against a multi-platform tool is understandable.

The one exception is a Javascript tool, since things like Chromium have a LOT of effort put into them by companies with thousands of developers on payroll. However the number of tools that should run in such a environment is limitted.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#55

I know this is a Bootstrap tool, which means it has baggage. But if something like this existed for email, I would buy it in a snap. I have yet to find a desktop tool that can make decent responsive html emails, and that is one of the main strengths that Bootstrap should offer. Skip the JQ efects. Perhaps you can make a email mode that is JS free, strips out the unused CSS, and inlines the remaining rules?

Have you looked into Foundation for Emails? A new version has just come out (or is coming out very soon).

http://foundation.zurb.com/emails

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#56
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The "Run Browser Demo" button engages me much better than video. I very rarely have patience for linear media.

But only in Chrome. So the best would be show the demo button only in Chrome and the video in other browsers.

Chrome-only demo is unfortunate in this particular case (I also use another webkit variant). If you ask me, scrollable page with screenshots is still better than video.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#57
post #34

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Nice. Bootstrap 4 demo is available at: http://v4.pingendo.com/playground.html

I got welcomed with the "Your browser is not supported, please use either Chrome or Safari". Sorry guys, but if your little app doesn't work in Firefox, I don't care about it, it's probably not worth time to even look at it.

I gave it a 30 seconds test with Firefox and it seemed to work. Probably not a deep enough test to say that it works, but I guess it's not far from working. I tried the Bootstrap 4 version.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#60

Pretty. I hope it doesn't mangle markup like GUI tools (that tackled the problem) in the distant past did. Frontpage or Netscape Composer anyone?

GoLive, Dreamweaver too. It's hard to convey semantic intent and create efficient structures in markup when your tool has to be generic enough to have a flexible GUI.

It still comes down to how skillful the creator is, to not end up with nested divs and classes like "rt-col1-flex-span-head".

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