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Re: Bulma CSS Framework

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Post by echohack5 »

makeitdouble wrote: post #29

Unrelated to the technical merits (but perhaps inline with justmedep's observation [0]), but the name can be contentious. I see no explanation of the name on the site in the documentation, but there would be two origins that come to mind immediately: - The japanese (romanized) spell of "bloomer", the garment, which is a well known cultural artifact, also famous in the manga/anime circles. It was removed from public s…

And? Git is "idiot" in British parlance. I don't think software should be made to appease some false idea of corporate politeness.

Re: Bulma CSS Framework

#32

Post by rkharsan64 »

nsonha wrote: post #28

Too many functional css frameworks like this around, nothing novel, all kinda the same, including that super popular one everyone is using these days... Just write css and save your brain space for actually useful abstractions.

If you're talking about Tailwind, this is nothing like that. This is a set of pre-built components, not unlike Bootstrap. You just use the components they offer, instead of having to manually code up a drop-down from scratch for each new website you create.

Re: Bulma CSS Framework

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Post by nsonha »

rkharsan64 wrote: post #32
nsonha wrote: post #28

Too many functional css frameworks like this around, nothing novel, all kinda the same, including that super popular one everyone is using these days... Just write css and save your brain space for actually useful abstractions.

If you're talking about Tailwind, this is nothing like that. This is a set of pre-built components, not unlike Bootstrap. You just use the components they offer, instead of having to manually code up a drop-down from scratch for each new website you create.

Everheard of copy/paste? Not unlike the way you copy/paste these css classes from the last project to the next.

Guess what? Taiwind has components too, but the built-in of course is never the exact thing people want, so they had to add utility classes. And when it doesn't cut, you go back to css anyway. A pointless effort only to add another thing you have to manage just for styling.

Re: Bulma CSS Framework

#34

Post by wruza »

csomar wrote: post #27
pier25 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this a good thing? You now need the extra JS from that component to encapsulate the HTML with TW classes. Plus all the overhead from TW itself. You need a ton of classes to essentially replicate inline styles. Plus all the CPU needed to parse and execute all that extra JS and CSS code. I get that some people prefer this workflow and that's fine, everyone has preferences. But arguing this is better than sending…

> You need a ton of classes to essentially replicate inline styles. This works better for optimization because you reuse classes. End developer doesn't care. Designers use Storybook to keep track of the components. > But arguing this is better than sending an HTML tag with a couple of classes is absurd. If you compile/SSR your React, the end user will get an HTML tag with classes.

Is this specific to react?

Re: Bulma CSS Framework

#35

Post by triyambakam »

nsonha wrote: post #28

Too many functional css frameworks like this around, nothing novel, all kinda the same, including that super popular one everyone is using these days... Just write css and save your brain space for actually useful abstractions.

Taking this to the next level is prompting models like Sonnet 3.5 and GPT-4o to build plain JS and CSS web apps and see how unnecessary Tailwind is to create a nice looking UI

Re: Bulma CSS Framework

#36

Post by arcanemachiner »

My personal take on Bulma is that it is like an uglier version of Bootstrap CSS that doesn't work as well and is harder to modify (in my experience, from when I had to poke at it to fix some issues I was having).

I worked with it for a couple projects, I was not particularly pleased with it overall. It's okay, I guess, but just nothing to really write home about.

Re: Bulma CSS Framework

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Post by chenster »

Probably gonna get some hate here. Really, another CSS framework? People, can we make our minds and stay on one and perfect it instead keep chasing the next 'better' alternatives?

Re: Bulma CSS Framework

#38

Post by arcanemachiner »

makeitdouble wrote: post #29

Unrelated to the technical merits (but perhaps inline with justmedep's observation [0]), but the name can be contentious. I see no explanation of the name on the site in the documentation, but there would be two origins that come to mind immediately: - The japanese (romanized) spell of "bloomer", the garment, which is a well known cultural artifact, also famous in the manga/anime circles. It was removed from public s…

I'm starting to feel like I'm seeing this take in every thread lately.

Re: Bulma CSS Framework

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Post by [deleted] »

echohack5 wrote: post #31
makeitdouble wrote: post #29

Unrelated to the technical merits (but perhaps inline with justmedep's observation [0]), but the name can be contentious. I see no explanation of the name on the site in the documentation, but there would be two origins that come to mind immediately: - The japanese (romanized) spell of "bloomer", the garment, which is a well known cultural artifact, also famous in the manga/anime circles. It was removed from public s…

And? Git is "idiot" in British parlance. I don't think software should be made to appease some false idea of corporate politeness.

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Re: Bulma CSS Framework

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Post by wruza »

arcanemachiner wrote: post #36

My personal take on Bulma is that it is like an uglier version of Bootstrap CSS that doesn't work as well and is harder to modify (in my experience, from when I had to poke at it to fix some issues I was having). I worked with it for a couple projects, I was not particularly pleased with it overall. It's okay, I guess, but just nothing to really write home about.

Same experience.

Also it’s a matter of taste, but its cyanish primary theme looks meh and it’s pretty hard to find a good theme. Feels like it could win 2x userbase by simply adopting better default colors.

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