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Re: Thank You Bootstrap 1

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Post by martinsnow » Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 5:46 PM UTC

lbruder wrote: post #33

caspper69 wrote: post #24

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Well we can all relate to that. We've all got to eat (and stay warm & dry). I think I'm just getting to the "old man yells at cloud" stage of my career. I think of all of the things that we could have built over the years, and understand, I say this not to detract from all of the great software that has been built, but to lament the fact that devs spend so much time spinning their wheels these days (when not reinvent…

Hi fellow yelling old man, would it be OK for me to steal your analogy? It's great! In the team I'm currently leading, we have made the same observation, with stuff getting more complicated without anything substantial to show for it. In a way we're having a harder time getting out features than twenty years ago, but somehow that's "progress". As an experiment, I had one of my juniors rewrite a (admittedly small) fro…

Htmx is terrible once you have to manage state that has to live in the frontend

Re: Thank You Bootstrap 1

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Post by dartos » Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 6:54 PM UTC

rafram wrote: post #53

dartos wrote: post #46

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Tailwind and bootstrap are near opposite approaches to frontend design … What’re you on about?

People really do sell Tailwind as if it’s a Bootstrap-like framework. I think that’s why so many sites (see: most startups) have a very similar “Tailwind look” now - everybody wants to use Tailwind because it’s hip, but nobody actually wants to write styles if they can help it, so they just copy-paste a very basic rounded-border-plus-shadow style onto all their components and call it a day. It’s a little better than…

As a programmer (not a designer) I like tailwind bc I can keep my styles and markup in the same file.

It’s a nice workflow.

Idk what the “tailwind look” is. Tailwind is basically a bunch of css classes with a single rule per.

I bet lots of startups are just using shadcn or something like it, which are bootstrap type big design frameworks

Re: Thank You Bootstrap 1

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Post by gjvc » Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 10:17 AM UTC

dmix wrote: post #52

gjvc wrote: post #2

Visually, bootstrap 2.23 was peak, before the flat bullshit took hold.

bootstrap 5.3 optionally supports gradients natively and uses shadows on their homepage https://getbootstrap.com/

not the same as the classic bootstrap theme from 2.x though is it? if you know otherwise, please correct me.

Re: Thank You Bootstrap 1

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Post by gjvc » Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 1:16 PM UTC

gjvc wrote: post #2

Visually, bootstrap 2.23 was peak, before the flat bullshit took hold.

https://bootswatch.com/spacelab/ is the closest i've found to the original 2.23 theme which was the perfect blend of 3D and colours to my eyes.

Re: Thank You Bootstrap 1

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Post by gjvc » Fri, Feb 14, 2025, 5:56 PM UTC

harlanji wrote: post #4

gjvc wrote: post #2

Visually, bootstrap 2.23 was peak, before the flat bullshit took hold.

I'm hearing I need to downgrade the Bootstrap in my suite? (A young addition). Which is great because Bootstrap 2-3, whenever I used it, was pleasant. I wasn't aware of the development timeline, thanks for the lead. Not flat is appealing. I picked ExtJS 2.0.2 for a specific reason, seemingly rando old trusty version as base.

how does ExtJS 2.0.2 measure up to ExtJS 4.22 in your opinion / experience ?