![]() For example you have to provide an entire HTML string as a template if you want something changed. The very strict and limited javascript options, not dynamic at all. Fine, but not exceptable for a website that grows beyond a landing page or something. Not to mention that stuff breaks everytime something changes on bootstrap's side. Any site that has some future behind it has to deal with this. Not even talking pixel perfect if you get my drift dont even go there, it is just dreadful. The global styles and lack of namespaces you find yourself constantly resetting/changing styles and providing your own namespaces to get your project EM perfect. I also have to say beforehand, since the beginning of development, alot of people had valid suggestions, and everytime you find topics closed by fat & friend unless they came up with the idea. There are so many things that are counterproductive some of the things that annoyed me the most: I'm using bootstrap since the beginning and the only reason im still using it is because it would take me months to replace it. I'm not 100% sure I understand why people rave about Compass as much as they do - I love the sprite generator but I haven't really grokked the rest of it. When it comes to LESS vs SASS, it seems that SASS is more popular and so it makes sense to go with VHS rather than Betamax. Just because I've never really used LESS much and I'm quite used to SASS. If I were starting a new project that needed a framework, I might toss a coin, unless it was heavy on the forms and for that I'd prefer Bootstrap.īut I'd probably use one of the SASS versions of Bootstrap that's kicking around Github. I've used both, and preferred Bootstrap, although if I remember correctly the new version of Bootstrap has a grid system that's more like Foundation than the version I used. Bootstrap and Foundation are really pretty similar. It's all good and neither is a bad choice. ![]() scss, you can continue to use straight CSS as much as you want and slowly add in bits of Sass as you become more comfortable with it. The difference is in the syntax and with. ![]() It's probably my favorite software purchase ever and it was only like $25. scss file, minifies my CSS and Javascripts, optimizes my images, and quickly tells me if I made a type-o or dumb mistake. It's definitely indispensable for me because I do use at least Sass in every project. If you're comfortable with command line, you can always install the Ruby gem to compile Sass on your local machine or remote server. Sass (not all caps, btw), I am going to let Chris Coyier explain it for me because he has a really nice, in-depth article. It really is a matter of personal preference and project needs for these two frameworks.įor LESS vs. If you already know that most of your visitors are going to be using IE8 and you need something more full-featured for those users than Foundation 4 can offer, you can also downgrade to 3.2 or do this. You can also read up on the grid docs for each to see some of the differences. Really the best way to understand what I mean is to try using Bootstrap and Foundation on two playground sites. What do people think and which do you go with over the other and why, considering all I've said here? Thanks in advance!īecause Foundation was built mobile-first, it has better tools for building mobile-first and getting very fine-tuned layouts which can make for very different results for your users. There are so many pros and cons that seem to all equal out in weight, it seems hard to make a decision. ![]() Then I learned that Bootstrap uses LESS which is supposedly worse than SASS, which also has Compass, and this combo makes it superior to LESS (true/false?). And its default styles seem to be "prettier," subjectively speaking I suppose. But Bootstrap has a much bigger community so there is more support and features/plugins because of this. Pros (the speakers) were saying Bootstrap wasn't really inherently responsive/mobile and it made sites all look the same (though if you change its styles, doesn't it fix that?), even calling Bootstrap worse and to go with Foundation. But then I heard about Zurb Foundation from a conference I went to. All I had known prior was that Twitter Bootstrap was what everyone was using and I was about to go with that. I've looked into both of these and I'm just not sure which to go with.
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