Re:Bootstrap 4 Beta 2
by pcwalton on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:48PM
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For the projects Bootstrap was designed for, the choice isn't between Bootstrap and a professionally designed custom theme; the choice is between Bootstrap and a white background with all text in Times New Roman 16 pt.
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What changed are browsers. The original advantage of bootstrap et al where grids and standardisation. These initial use cases have been subsumed by browsers, and bootstrap offers little more than a useless level of redirection.
Then, bootstrap added what I want to call widgets: small functional units that can easily be reused. Here, as well, browsers have changed dramatically. At the time bootstrap came out, these widgets required browser-specific, inscrutable hacks like negative margins, spacer pixels, and other crimes against htmlanity. Relative to 10 years ago, all of today's browser engines are identical, and CSS has added all these typical use cases.
What remains is more or less a skin changing html's defaults to something that may be prettier, or just not weighed down by the stigma of being the default.
Re:Bootstrap 4 Beta 2
by PunchTornado on Thursday October 19, 2017 @06:07PM
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I wonder why people don't get this. It's not like you're doing a Fortune 500 company's website with Bootstrap.
Re:Bootstrap 4 Beta 2
by brianwawok on Thursday October 19, 2017 @06:32PM
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I bet we can find 50 uses of bootstrap in the f500.
At least. I’ve seen lots and lots of internal tools, product admin dashboards, and the occasional single-page product marketing sites, like the one the overworked intern, Todd, threw together in the 24 hours between the time the virtually-without-requirements demand was dropped on his tiny, cramped, mid-bullpen loaner desk and when he launched it into production to zero thanks.
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
That format seems to work for the #2 company on the Fortune 500. Not that their website is beautiful, but sometimes it simply doesn't even matter.