Wow, I really like this.
Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI
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#32What I'd really like is a UI toolkit for developers that goes
Frankly, Bootstrap is exactly that, for me. I've been converting our products (Webmin/Virtualmin, which are 15 and 10 year old codebases, respectively, and it shows badly in the current UI). Converting to Bootstrap, while extremely time-consuming, is not requiring significant design skill on my part to make everything look freaking awesome.
Thank you for redesigning Webmin. I used it for a client's server and the functionality was fantastic, the design a bit less so. A Bootstrap'd frontend sounds fantastic.
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#33Can you guys please stop whining about the name and talk about the features? Didn't your elementary school teacher tell you not to judge a book by its cover? They could always change the name if they had to. They never actually say they're semantic HTML, it could have other meanings. Or, you know, it could just be a name. There's plenty of projects with meaningless names.
Don't be an idiot. Semantic UI has a meaning. The authors chose to ignore its meaning while trading on the cachet of the name. While their web dev skills may be unsurpassed, it's a reasonable criteria on which to judge them.
Ad hominem attack, really?
A single post or two on the name I could understand, but every comment? HN fixates on the absurd.
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#34This. I like this. It's sort of like an OOCSS Bootstrap.
No. Not at all.
OOCSS focuses on patterns that are reproduced in the page (or site) multiple time with little variation of look or positioning.
This is everything but that.
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#35If the website creator is reading this - Please do something about the moving background image. It's nausea-inducing, and I had to exit the website due to it.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah that one was too specific for my liking I don't think you should use colors names like 'red' as a class. What if you decide you don't want it to be red?
Remove the "red" class from the element? I used to eschew any and all presentational classes, but it makes development quicker for me to use them occasionally, esp with css frameworks.
Use a SASS mixin instead? @include red;
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't be an idiot. Semantic UI has a meaning. The authors chose to ignore its meaning while trading on the cachet of the name. While their web dev skills may be unsurpassed, it's a reasonable criteria on which to judge them.
Ad hominem attack, really? A single post or two on the name I could understand, but every comment? HN fixates on the absurd.
Because semantic actually means something, it's not a subjective term.
Calling something Semantic UI and comparing it to another library, that more follows the actually meaning of semantic, is silly. Yes you can change the class name but setting up the name as something meaningful, something semantic, such as 'submitButton' lets you redefine it in the CSS.
If I'm building something that multiple clients will use I don't want each client having buttons with class names specific to the client, but something I can modify easily in the CSS to get the look and feel they want.
It's ass backwards.
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#38I wouldn't call writing "ui large red labeled icon button" in HTML semantic anything. I'd called it confusing orgy of style and content.
I agree. First of all, why is a ui class necessary? Second, what's large? The icon, the button, the label? All of it? What's red, the icon or the button? Certainly not both. There's a reason we have classes like "btn btn-small icon-* icon-2x". A large icon in a small button. I think those names are more 'semantic'.
I assume the ui class is there for namespacing, which I think is a good idea.
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#39The bootstrap markup is actually more semantic than Semantic UI. Classes like large, red, floated, right, circular etc.. are presentational not semantic. If you want to use a framework and keep semantic CSS then look in to using the LESS/SASS version of Bootstrap or Foundation. Edit: After a more detailed look, the framework is actually really nice (and very comprehensive). The name still doesn't make much sense thou…
I don't understand this. It's CSS. Of course it's presentational. Do CSS class names have to describe the semantic structure, as well as the DOM structure?
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#40Great idea except you don't namespace anything! I like namespaces because one library or css import from another won't ever stomp on each other. I've seen 'ui', 'button' and 'red' in several other packages and places. They're going to conflict. The one with the greatest specifity is going to win and cause untold hours of frustrating debugging.
+1 with that. I dont understand why css framework authors dont namespace their frameworks. That's should be a basic requirement before distributing any css library.