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Is it me or do they use greyish text on white background that makes the whole thing hard to read ? i'd like to understand , what the hell is that low contrast trend and how does it make the text more readable ? Designer should quit it. Are they stupid or what ? Also this flat trend make the design very poor , but maybe that's the intended effect.

Re: Bootstrap 3 preview

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Post by larrydavid » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 5:26 PM UTC

camus wrote: post #54

Is it me or do they use greyish text on white background that makes the whole thing hard to read ? i'd like to understand , what the hell is that low contrast trend and how does it make the text more readable ? Designer should quit it. Are they stupid or what ? Also this flat trend make the design very poor , but maybe that's the intended effect.

I think you need to relax. If the design is so poor then customize it. Or even better, submit a pull request that includes your own brilliant design skills.

Re: Bootstrap 3 preview

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Post by winkerVSbecks » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 5:30 PM UTC

laureny wrote: post #32

So Bootstrap uses proprietary HTML elements, like Angular? I like both frameworks but is this a trend we should worry about?

What's the problem with Angular's choice?

Proprietary elements in Angular are called directives. You define them and choose how to render them, what data to pass to them and linked functions to call after rendering. Everything is taken care of, it's not like the browser is going to freakout and not know what to do.

Re: Bootstrap 3 preview

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Post by crisnoble » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 5:31 PM UTC

alexvr wrote: post #31

Not sure if I like this at all. I think they need to call it Bootstrap 3: flat and fat! It just seems like a huge step back to me. It's not even an elegant "flat" design; it's like they scrapped everything and decided to make all classes (even buttons for God's sake) DIVs of different colors. The new navbar, for example, is literally a gray DIV with rounded edges. I use Bootstrap on my web app because I care about de…

>I can make flat DIVs myself, thank you very much.

What about the scaffolding, the grid system and sane typographic rhythm? What about the glyphicons and out of the box mobile awesomeness?

Bootstrap is more than 3D buttons and box shadows, perhaps they are moving away from that to focus on the utilities that make the framework great, and not for the shiny buttons.

Re: Bootstrap 3 preview

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Post by crisnoble » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 5:33 PM UTC

camus wrote: post #54

Is it me or do they use greyish text on white background that makes the whole thing hard to read ? i'd like to understand , what the hell is that low contrast trend and how does it make the text more readable ? Designer should quit it. Are they stupid or what ? Also this flat trend make the design very poor , but maybe that's the intended effect.

>Also this flat trend make the design very poor.

Bootstrap is not just a UI framework.

Re: Bootstrap 3 preview

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Post by president » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 5:33 PM UTC

What's with the whitish glow on button text?

Re: Bootstrap 3 preview

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Post by MatthewPhillips » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 5:38 PM UTC

andyl wrote: post #53

Mobile first - Yeah! Can anyone compare/constrast the mobilefirst-ness of Bootstrap3 and Zurb4 ?? Why would I use one vs the other??

That's a good question that I'd like to see answered. It seems to me that mobile-first is used as a buzzword here. Unless they are literally inventing features for the mobile layout and then finding a way to make them work on desktop -- for example if the navigation bar accordion thing was there before the full desktop navigation bar.