Bootstrap 3.1 released

Post by owenversteeg » Fri, Jan 31, 2014, 3:07 AM UTC

applecore wrote: post #47

freshyill wrote: post #43

Question: If you were developing a large, content-driven site, would you bother with Bootstrap? Bootstrap seemed a bit like overkill when I had to use it in my old job. The CSS and markup seemed excessive, and the strict JS was kind of a pain to deal with. I know I can get something that looks half-decent up and running quickly with it, but if I'm not planning to take any visual design from it, is there much of an ad…

What's a good alternative?

Post by owenversteeg » Fri, Jan 31, 2014, 3:12 AM UTC

freshyill wrote: post #43

Question: If you were developing a large, content-driven site, would you bother with Bootstrap? Bootstrap seemed a bit like overkill when I had to use it in my old job. The CSS and markup seemed excessive, and the strict JS was kind of a pain to deal with. I know I can get something that looks half-decent up and running quickly with it, but if I'm not planning to take any visual design from it, is there much of an ad…

Post by stephen_g » Fri, Jan 31, 2014, 3:30 AM UTC

owenversteeg wrote: post #103

freshyill wrote: post #43

Question: If you were developing a large, content-driven site, would you bother with Bootstrap? Bootstrap seemed a bit like overkill when I had to use it in my old job. The CSS and markup seemed excessive, and the strict JS was kind of a pain to deal with. I know I can get something that looks half-decent up and running quickly with it, but if I'm not planning to take any visual design from it, is there much of an ad…

Answer: You wouldn't. Bootstrap's extremely bloated, requires jQuery, and has a huge (required) JS file. Choose a small, leaner CSS framework, like Min - only 995 bytes and it is near feature parity with Bootstrap. http://minfwk.com

Post by jfoster » Fri, Jan 31, 2014, 4:03 AM UTC

admiraltbags wrote: post #23

STRiDEX wrote: post #6

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Defining all 4 screen sizes gets tedious. That aside, The new landing page on http://getbootstrap.com/ looks great

Great? Looks bland. Anyone else have a weird box sitting under the download button? http://i.imgur.com/U5OyI7g.png

Post by ahahah » Fri, Jan 31, 2014, 5:00 AM UTC

Bahamut wrote: post #94

freshyill wrote: post #43

Question: If you were developing a large, content-driven site, would you bother with Bootstrap? Bootstrap seemed a bit like overkill when I had to use it in my old job. The CSS and markup seemed excessive, and the strict JS was kind of a pain to deal with. I know I can get something that looks half-decent up and running quickly with it, but if I'm not planning to take any visual design from it, is there much of an ad…

If you want to avoid polluting the HTML too much, you could always use the mixins/classes from the LESS or SASS files ( https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass for SASS). Even as a frontend developer who knows CSS pretty well, I like using Bootstrap. It lets me focus on more important things. For my workplace, the UI team will use a bit from Bootstrap, more if we're under time pressure to finish a project. They rather…