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Zurb Launches Foundation 4

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Re: Zurb Launches Foundation 4

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post #48

Wow this looks amazing. The off-canvas layouts for mobile look great. I think I'm going to migrate my Github page from Bootstrap to this. Does anyone know if Foundation has any CDN's?

Take a look at cdnjs.com. They haven't updated to 4 yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did soon. They have many more libraries than Google's or Microsoft's CDNs.

Re: Zurb Launches Foundation 4

#62
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, you would think they would at least provide a changelog. I'm curious if there are changes incompatible with v3.

They linked to a migration guide in the linked article. Here it is in case you missed it: http://foundation.zurb.com/migration.php

Totally missed it, thanks!

Re: Zurb Launches Foundation 4

#63

seems kinda of a problem that "The Grid, Layout/UI and JS", aren't compatible with IE8 and bellow no?. http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/support.html

In my opinion, no. But I've been known to be wrong.

IE8 is the newest browser available for Windows XP which still makes up a vast number of business computers.

Re: Zurb Launches Foundation 4

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post #44

I couldn't find any examples on the site of using "the magic of Scss, you can now remove almost all of the presentational classes from your markup." Could someone provide an example, or provide a pointer to an example of html markup which removes all presentational classes? I did look at their templates site: http://foundation.zurb.com/templates.php and I still see presentational markup. EDIT: I'd also like to see a…

There's examples on almost every page of the docs. For example, here's the docs for buttons: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/buttons.html Just scroll down to the "Build with Mixins" section.

Love it! In my mind THIS is the best new feature of foundation 4 (I mean the new doc ;)

Re: Zurb Launches Foundation 4

#66
I love Foundation 4 so far, but I still find the top-bar nearly useless. Maybe my opinion or experience is atypical, but that's the one aspect of the framework that I usually find myself replacing when using Foundation. Most of the rest of it is logically designed and useful right out of the box.

Re: Zurb Launches Foundation 4

#67
post #29

I don't understand the whole mobile first thing? Isn't Foundation already responsive? Don't most websites built with Foundation's grid system automatically fit nicely on mobile devices? Am I missing something?

Mobile first is just a new paradigm where you make your application fit a mobile screen first, then your second step is to scale up to web (or tablet).

Doing mobile first forces you to distil your app to just exactly the right components you need to achieve your product goal because there's so little real estate. It prevents you from adding non essential bullshit that you could easily throw into your design if you started with web.

Re: Zurb Launches Foundation 4

#68
I understand why people praise these frameworks but in my case The Semantic Grid [1] + HTML5 Boilerplate [2] + Nib [3] is all I need to get started with any web project. I first prototype in vector and once I have the general wireframes I start mocking up the layout in HTML+CSS manually. Once the layout is done, I style the UI elements from scratch as well. Am I the only one tired of Bootstrap looking sites?

[1] http://semantic.gs/

[2] http://html5boilerplate.com/

[3] http://visionmedia.github.com/nib/

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