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Re: Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released

#21
I like almost everything about bootstrap, except for it's button states...

They don't feel right. The 'hover' state should be the 'down'(active) state; the hover state looks like button is pushed in. The hover needs some kind of glow or subtle gradient change, then when the button is clicked it needs to look like it's pushed in. It's strange they've done this because the buttons on twitter.com feel correct and get pushed in like real life buttons.

Also the fade animation on the button totally unnecessary, it just animates for the sake of being animated, it doesn't serve a purpose. Animations need to serve a purpose, such as the Mac App store whizzing purchased apps into the dock.

Everything else is pretty fantastic, but those button states make my skin crawl, they're the first thing to get changed if I'm using bootstrap.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released

#22

Sadly there is not change log. I just scrolled through the doc and could not find any features. All this seems to be from 1.3.0 is bug fixes which make it a patch? Please correct me if I'm wrong and I missed something awesome ;)

How else would one deliver bug fixes, exactly?

Re: Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released

#23

Sadly there is not change log. I just scrolled through the doc and could not find any features. All this seems to be from 1.3.0 is bug fixes which make it a patch? Please correct me if I'm wrong and I missed something awesome ;)

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues?milestone=6&...

Re: Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released

#26
post #14
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a counterexample, I just built a site with Bootstrap, and I was very happy with the experience. It's the first site I've ever made that I think looks pretty good. I worked around the styles I didn't want in two different ways. One, I built my own version of the css that excluded all the form styles (non-native controls are bad). This involved installing some packages that I didn't really understand but didn't need…

"This is absolutely no different than what you do with any other website, where you're overriding the browser's default styles instead of Bootstrap's" Its different. There are all kinds of properties I don't want to have to override. This gives me the option of deleting code from bootstrap css or having duplicate css code in my project, every page load, and every rendering of the dom. A prototype is fine, but once I'…

I agree. The problem I'm facing now is that I customized a lot of the CSS styles directly, but with the new ongoing updates, it's not going to be easy to merge them through.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released

#27
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Recently I walked into project that used Twitter bootstrap for the initial CSS. A prototype was built, relying on the bootstrap CSS, and from that point on it has been hassle to work with the CSS. I'm really not sure I understand the strategy of dumping so many styles into the global name space. Basically, all of us have been working around the styling as we implement features.. a major refactor is in order and we wi…

I just use the parts I like in .bootstrap namespace. It's freely available, and getting better all the time.

Re: Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released

#28

What is the difference between Bootstrap vs Foundation (zurb)?

Just some observations:

Bootstrap uses LESS. Not everyone is a fan.

Bootstrap has more features and, in my opinion, nicer buttons and alerts.

Foundation is built to be responsive and to work great with mobile and tablet devices.

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