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Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web
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Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web
#22I sometimes use stuff because everyone else is using it. And then I wonder why I did that. I recently removed bootstrap from a website I have that is composed entirely of static HTML documents [1]. It's a teaser / marketing site for my current project. The sample sites looked nice and I figured that since I and CSS are of basically nodding acquaintance -- why not? I discovered that Bootstrap was just too featuresome…
Can i recommend Foundation by Zurb, it's like bootstrap but better IMHO. It allows you to download and use the parts you ned and nothing more.
so does bootstrap
Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web
#23Off topic, I did not know about meanpath and I was looking for a (website) source code search engine for sometime.
https://meanpath.com/f/
If they opened all the search results I would surely use this often.
Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did have "styled by" as the original headline. Bounced it off a few people who were not that sure what I meant so changed it to "powered by".
So you checked the headline with a few people who are not in your target audience?
You check understanding with the low domain-intelligence end of your target audience. That could cause confusion whether someone is the target or not.
Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know it is not quantifiable but the effectively free marketing and goodwill that Twitter get from open sourcing Bootstrap must be worth many millions.
That may very well be, but personally, I have no objection to this at all, b/c: - supporting Twitter does not do any damage (unless you'd argue it's subject to the mass surveillance problem and should therefor be avoided) - you're not being locked in, you can drop it at any time without any consequences
They are doing something good for the community with bootstrap. If they get free marketing or anything else out of it they deserve it.
Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web
#26Powered by is definitely an overstatement but bootstrap and foundation are great default styles. I'm primarily a developer and they let me work on the code without going into how things look too early.
Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web
#27I sometimes use stuff because everyone else is using it. And then I wonder why I did that. I recently removed bootstrap from a website I have that is composed entirely of static HTML documents [1]. It's a teaser / marketing site for my current project. The sample sites looked nice and I figured that since I and CSS are of basically nodding acquaintance -- why not? I discovered that Bootstrap was just too featuresome…
Bootstrap comes in two parts and if you only install the stylesheet, there are classes that work just fine without the Javascript.
Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web
#28I sometimes use stuff because everyone else is using it. And then I wonder why I did that. I recently removed bootstrap from a website I have that is composed entirely of static HTML documents [1]. It's a teaser / marketing site for my current project. The sample sites looked nice and I figured that since I and CSS are of basically nodding acquaintance -- why not? I discovered that Bootstrap was just too featuresome…
I clearly know why I chose Bootstrap for some of my sites:
i) In the past I spent a lot of time with designers and now I can design a site from scratch myself (I am not a web developer). Before bootstrap sites designed by me looked very well on Mosaic :-)
ii) If I work with a designer I need to spec a lot of details (bullets, headings, columns, colors) and how the fit together. With bootstrap I know that I can change what I don't like.
iii) I can then talk with a designer to only change what I don't like. So Bootstrap is a foundation base.
An example of this is http://www.nektra.com where I use Python Django and Mezzanine as CMS. I've not implemented yet the last designer version which is better. Another site http://www.securecouponcodes.com is just plain bootstrap and was implemented a little bit after the framework was released. If it not were by bootstrap the second site would be delayed since it was implemented only by me.
Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web
#291% of the indexed web, which might be less than 10% of the web at large (see for example here: http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-the-web-does-Google-... )
Are there many sites not indexed by google a person would care about?
I think no one would miss a thing if we dropped all pages past 5 from the index :P
Re: Twitter Bootstrap Now Powering 1% of The Web
#30That's really impressive, if accurate. If so many people are using Bootstrap as a default style, it makes me wonder if maybe the default way browser style HTML element shouldn't be closer to what Bootstrap does?
thats kind of what i feel.
bootstrap is just a more pleasant baseline than unstyled markup.