Re:Zurb Foundation 5 Released
by travelorg on Thursday November 21, 2013 @02:07PM
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Is Foundation a "Standard" now?
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As much as Bootstrap, I imagine. Not sure if moreso or lessso though. Perhaps different use cases? It looks like developers prefer Bootstrap, not entirely sure why - perhaps something as simple as the documentation is structured better for them - or that was the initial crowd who was exposed to it.
Bootstrap has a lot more "extras (javascript stuff)" that make it easier to make an entire product using it.
That's pretty much it.
It's just that I'm the guy that liked dojo when the world liked jquery.
Should I just go with the majority and choose bootstrap?
I think jQuery and Bootstrap are "developer ready". IE , easy to use. The easiest lib/project to use will always be the most successfull one. Doesnt mean there is no place for competition, and it doesnt mean it will always be the framework everybody use. Furthermore this is "Twitter" bootstrap. Most people have no idea what Zurb is.
Re:Zurb Foundation 5 Released
by SkyMarshal on Thursday November 21, 2013 @05:29PM
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Foundation's enough of a standard that you don't have to worry about that. It'll be around indefinitely and won't get abandoned like some hobbyist project or superseded by Bootstrap.
My aim is to reduce downloads to mobile users but allow tabs and laptop/desktop users with bandwidth to get the full show.
There's a lot more web application stuff built into bootstrap for forms and multistate buttons and what not.
Bootstrap is attached to a big-name company.
They're not though. The author worked for Twitter when he released the first version of Bootstrap, but Twitter never actually used it in production. Twitter doesn't promote it anymore either; BS3 got moved to twbs/bootstrap on GitHub, and the new marketing site doesn't call it Twitter Bootstrap anymore.
ZURB doesn't have a huge consumer product, but they're a pretty big name in design, and they have half a dozen people who regularly work on Foundation/Foundation support.
I agree that I should have written it past-tense... But, until recently, it was clear that Twitter's name was attached to the project. A Google search for "Twitter Bootstrap" pulls up all the relevant docs, and the first line of the 2.3.2 docs is "Built at Twitter by @mdo and @fat"