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Zurb Foundation 5 Released

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Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#31

The linked web page crashes Safari on iOS 7. Mobile first, eh?

We tested pretty extensively, it looks okay...what device?

Tested and duplicated on an iPad air here. It's Safari's issue, though.

There's a bug in mobile Safari that I can replicate on other sites. Scrolling on Craigslist's map view when the page is loading also crashes the browser, which leads me to believe it's something related to attaching to events in certain states.

Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#33

So for the HTML deficient are there any template sites for foundation yet? These exist for bootstrap, and for someone who doesn't have even a single bone of design talent in his body they're a godsend.

Yes, they have some bare bones templates here: http://foundation.zurb.com/templates.html

Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#34

I don't know why (maybe I'm just not good with css and html in general), but I'm always confused when looking at these grid systems. Trying to use zurb in a project now and I'm kinda lost. Any good resources other than their docs for sort of showing how to use zurb in a full project?

Are you talking about Zurb's grid system[0] specifically, or referring to Zurb/Bootstrap as "grid systems"?

If it's the latter, a simple Google search for "how to use Bootstrap" turns up a lot of resources, including this one[1], which looks good. You might be able to find Foundation-specific ones, but Bootstrap seems to have the edge in popularity.

[0]: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/grid.html [1]: http://www.onextrapixel.com/2012/11/12/how-to-use-twitter-bo...

Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#35

I just finished the redesign of my entire site to use Foundation 4 instead of Bootstrap last night. I'm laughing tears right now...

Hopefully by v5 they'll have kept the changes non-breaking.

edit: Apparently it's mostly js fixes for migration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6776912

Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#37

I just finished the redesign of my entire site to use Foundation 4 instead of Bootstrap last night. I'm laughing tears right now...

You should be fine, there aren't many class/selector changes, AFAIK. You may need to do some JS fixes, but that's it.

Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#38

I would just like to say that I love Foundation! Kudos to the team and congrats on the new release. I look forward to exploring the new version. That being said, I am not really digging the new documentation page. The sample code containers should have a non-white background or at least some kind of a border.

Hmm, they should, have a light grey background. Maybe too light?

I could see it after fiddling with my contrast setting. I am not sure how bad it is for other people.

Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#39

This framework is so much further along than Bootstrap is, and the team at Zurb seems to iterate much faster then the Bootstrap team.

I believe Foundation is much better for front-end design than Bootstrap. The main benefit of Bootstrap is in backend design because it managed to get more popular and consequently its much easier to find 'bootstrap ready' js based widgets etc

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but how does Bootstrap's popularity make it better for backend design?

Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#40
Wow, that was fast !

I love Foundation, but I had to switch to Boostrap because I found it... ugly. And Bootstrap is great to quickly create "pretty" prototypes. But I've always found Foundation having better... foundations. I've used both on numerous projects and here's my take :

* The grid system now looks like bootstrap, and I don't like that. You have to choose the type of column you want to use (and I don't want to be bothered by that). so no .six anymore, it's .medium-6 or .large-6 or .small-6... They should call the .small-6 just .six so we know its the default one.

* It does look a bit better, although they removed styling of the radiobox in forms? Why?

* Overall I still prefer bootstrap's theme, I wish Foundation would offer an optional theme like bootstrap 3 does.

* OffCanvas menu is great ! I can already see plenty of applications (but for mobile only)

* The CLI is a nice thing to have but I'm gonna stay away from it. I like the easiness of copypasting files to quickly begin a small project.

* Documentation is hard to go through, doesn't allow to glance at what it offers. It's a huge improvement from F4 or F3 though.

* I use sublime text snippets all the time and this might be a huge addition!

* I like the JS that verifies forms. I usually always use this on my projects so it's nice to have it by default.

Overall I don't really know if I should switch back to Foundation. But I'll definitely use it for my next project to see how good it is.

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