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Re: Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

#11

Post by creativityhurts » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 10:53 PM UTC

d0m wrote: post #5

Sigh. So fucking what, that facebook uses bootstrap.

I think it's a big thing for Bootstrap as a project and for its creators and contributors when their work is used by giants like Facebook & co.

Re: Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

#12

Post by drivebyacct2 » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 10:54 PM UTC

pizza wrote: post #9

On a more general note, is anyone else tired of seeing "X uses Y" posts? It feels more and more that, in the Valley, namedropping is a way to ensure your own relevance, whether you're a business or a landing page or a person, and I'm getting tired of these appeals to popularity.

I'm pretty much 100% sure Facebook is not name-dropping Twitter.

Re: Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

#13

Post by imjared » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 10:55 PM UTC

creativityhurts wrote: post #11

d0m wrote: post #5

Sigh. So fucking what, that facebook uses bootstrap.

I think it's a big thing for Bootstrap as a project and for its creators and contributors when their work is used by giants like Facebook & co.

It's a Twitter project, it's not like bootstrap isn't being used by "giants" already.

Re: Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

#14

Post by electic » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 10:59 PM UTC

Big deal. Facebook uses a lot of JS and CSS from all over the place. Not sure why this is a big deal.

Re: Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

#15

Post by blago » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 10:59 PM UTC

pizza wrote: post #9

On a more general note, is anyone else tired of seeing "X uses Y" posts? It feels more and more that, in the Valley, namedropping is a way to ensure your own relevance, whether you're a business or a landing page or a person, and I'm getting tired of these appeals to popularity.

"X - the Y for something" is even more annoying. Example from first page: "EasyPost - the Stripe for postage"

Re: Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

#16

Post by creativityhurts » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 11:01 PM UTC

imjared wrote: post #13

creativityhurts wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's a big thing for Bootstrap as a project and for its creators and contributors when their work is used by giants like Facebook & co.

It's a Twitter project, it's not like bootstrap isn't being used by "giants" already.

I meant other giants besides the company that helped creating it.

Re: Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

#17

Post by sjtgraham » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 11:02 PM UTC

so. what.

Re: Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

#18

Post by arice » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 11:03 PM UTC

FYI: Facebook has open sourced this tool, you can find it on github. Here's the commit that added Bootstrap: https://github.com/daaku/rell/commit/64bd62d40df54ddc08a9270...

Re: Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

#19

Post by untog » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 11:04 PM UTC

blago wrote: post #15

pizza wrote: post #9

On a more general note, is anyone else tired of seeing "X uses Y" posts? It feels more and more that, in the Valley, namedropping is a way to ensure your own relevance, whether you're a business or a landing page or a person, and I'm getting tired of these appeals to popularity.

"X - the Y for something" is even more annoying. Example from first page: "EasyPost - the Stripe for postage"

While I understand the annoyance, how else could you convey what "the Stripe for postage" says in such a short, succinct way?

Re: Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

#20

Post by pizza » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 11:06 PM UTC

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #12

pizza wrote: post #9

On a more general note, is anyone else tired of seeing "X uses Y" posts? It feels more and more that, in the Valley, namedropping is a way to ensure your own relevance, whether you're a business or a landing page or a person, and I'm getting tired of these appeals to popularity.

I'm pretty much 100% sure Facebook is not name-dropping Twitter.

Yeah, but OP is.