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Zurb Foundation 5 Released

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Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#171

Is Foundation better than Bootstrap? I'm genuinely curious, as they seem functionality equivalent. Of course, one uses SASS and one uses LESS. I knew LESS, so I picked Bootstrap. But I'm more than willing to switch.

Where I work, we use LESS. We actually use Foundation (with it's SASS) and put LESS over it and forget Bootstrap. It's that good.

Genuinely curious, why that much effort to use LESS over Sass?

Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#172

Chrome zoomed in at 125% is enough to break the layout on the getting started page, which is a little worrying.

Screenshot? I'm not seeing what you're seeing.

Someone appears to have fixed this. The main content was showing below the left sidebar. ( I have Chrome's default font as Android Sans, that might have had something to do with it).

Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#173

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 use Bootstrap exclusively, but I've played with Foundation (back on version 3). But honestly, I can't see what the difference in the frameworks are. Do you have a reference comparing them so that I could see what I'm missing?

Re: Zurb Foundation 5 Released

#174
post #131

Can you explain the benefit of defining media queries with em's rather than pixels? It seems like an unnecessary layer of mental translation for developers, given that you deem it necessary to list px-equivalents in the CSS comments. [1] Also, the medium/large screen sizes in Interchange don't align with the media query sizes. Interchange says 1024px wide is large, [2] but the media query says 1024px wide is medium.…

This explains the benefits:

http://blog.cloudfour.com/the-ems-have-it-proportional-media...

Here's some boilerplate code:

https://github.com/johannaruiz/propotional-mqs

Make sure you set the viewport correctly:

http://blog.javierusobiaga.com/stop-using-the-viewport-tag-u...

as an incorrect viewport can cause issues with some mobile browsers:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2013/11/a_day_in_the...

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