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Last week 2.0 introduced me to the world of responsive design. Converted our current project to it. Higher ups are pleased and it saved me from creating a second "mobile" site. I am a fan.
Yes, Bootstrap is great. Honestly, I love using it. But where are all the people that I used to see screeching about semantic markup? Because this takes things in exactly the opposite direction.
yeah, like using for icons http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#edef-I
Can someone compare and contrast Boostrap 2.0 with ZURB Foundation? I've been using Foundation for a new project and am really digging the responsive layout features.
I did a side-by-side of a simple design when trying to choose one. Bootstrap just has better defaults with things like padding, sizing, and margins. It just looked better. Now that Bootstrap has responsive design, there's no contest.
Some other useful css frameworks include http://blueprintcss.org/ and http://compass-style.org/ , if you are interested. That being said, I have used all three for different projects and have enjoyed working with bootstrap the most.
http://csswizardry.com/inuitcss/ http://framelessgrid.com/ http://goldengridsystem.com/ http://foundation.zurb.com/ http://goldilocksapproach.com/ http://www.columnal.com/ http://www.getskeleton.com/ http://thatcoolguy.github.com/gridless-boilerplate/ http://semantic.gs/
Can someone compare and contrast Boostrap 2.0 with ZURB Foundation? I've been using Foundation for a new project and am really digging the responsive layout features.
Both are based on solid resets and (now) great, nestable, responsive grids.
Bootstrap is great for when you're not a designer and you need to get something out there that looks passable. It includes a lot of fully styled elements and have very nice typography and forms out of the box. I found Bootstrap a lifesaver to get something up at http://www.eventsourcehq.com quickly.
Foundation is great to use as the foundation of a website when you have design skills or are working with a designer. Using the grids and the defaults gives you a lot less to think about when getting the rough outline of a website done, but you won't have to start overriding or deleting a bunch of included styles once you want to apply your own. We've used Foundation as the base for our example project template for http://www.webpop.com and plan on making more foundation based templates.
In short:
Bootstrap when you want something styled out of the box. Foundation when you just want to quickly get the structure and layout going and then apply your own styles.
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It looks like they still do. From http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#icons How to use With v2.0.0, we have opted to use an tag for all our icons, but they have no case class—only a shared prefix. To use, place the following code just about anywhere:
Yes, it looks like the docs are lagging behind the code. You just need to include the icon-something class in a tag.
I am going to chime in being negative against the wave of positive feedback here. Twitter has done well releasing this and when I first saw it ages ago it looked neat and fairly professional. However, like a pop song which has been completely overplayed on the radio it has become tired and frankly a bit annoying. It has its uses offline to quickly get a demo up and running but it shouldn't be used on a live site. At…
Bootstrap is not overused; just under customized. In all fairness, what this proves is that there is a fairly large market for such packaged customization themes which are built thoughtfully and work on all resolutions.
I proposed names like @primaryColor, @primaryColorLight, @secondaryColor, etc, but the tickets were closed. Yes, it's a lot of work, but it must be done. If you can define your four colors and have Bootstrap look entirely different, it goes a long way to instant customization.
I am going to chime in being negative against the wave of positive feedback here. Twitter has done well releasing this and when I first saw it ages ago it looked neat and fairly professional. However, like a pop song which has been completely overplayed on the radio it has become tired and frankly a bit annoying. It has its uses offline to quickly get a demo up and running but it shouldn't be used on a live site. At…
Some other useful css frameworks include http://blueprintcss.org/ and http://compass-style.org/ , if you are interested. That being said, I have used all three for different projects and have enjoyed working with bootstrap the most.