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Re:Bootstrap Magic featuring Boostrap 3 by 6cxs2hd6 on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @11:00AM (#6321333)
Some UX feedback from a dumb user: I spent a few minutes thinking there wasn't any preview. Finally I noticed the "Apply" button way down at the bottom --- and the "Auto" checkbox next to it. Maybe the "Auto" checkbox should be enabled by default.

Once I figured that out: Awesome.

Re:Bootstrap Magic featuring Boostrap 3 by stblack on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @11:22AM (#6321446)
THIS.

I never noticed the "Apply" button, and I'm not on the page anymore.

I would guess that a significant proportion of users will quickly figure out the page does NOT auto-update and walk away having wasted time, never seen it work.

Like I did.

Re:Bootstrap Magic featuring Boostrap 3 by tsifei on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @11:24AM (#6321453)
Hi, yes it's true. The issue that we are facing with the auto checkbox is that we need to recompile all the time, the whole bootstrap so it 's a kind of slow. We will look for a solution for the next version.
Re:Bootstrap Magic featuring Boostrap 3 by pajohnson on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @12:19PM (#6321798)
One suggestion would be to use timeouts to add a delay to the input event handler, so it would wait until the typing has stopped for a while rather than recompiling on every key press. That's just a line or two of extra js and should make the auto updating vastly more usable.
Re:Bootstrap Magic featuring Boostrap 3 by tsifei on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @01:03PM (#6322127)
yeh, good suggestion, we just added your advice. There are a lot to parse with Bootstrap ... still thinking about making it lighter
Re:Bootstrap Magic featuring Boostrap 3 by tlarkworthy on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @01:03PM (#6322126)
make the Apply button flash on and off with a CSS animation?