I wish that I could change do Disqus without losing all of my old comments. I had originally decided on Facebook I believe before this design of the site and now I'm stuck with it—if any one has a hack to change the type I'd love some advice. I can't seem to override the FB CSS.
I know some users. I don't know if they are ordinary. I think they are. My parents in their 50's. A grandmother of 80. Some friends which are 30 with a very average computer literacy.
Every one of them took fast with the iPad (that's how Apple is good), but no one of 'em'll fill 16gb of space.
I've attended to a course on presenting in a French university. The professor actually recommended Comic Sans as the most suitable font. With a straight face.
Now bootstrap is important, yesterday it was the 360 grid, tomorrow it'll be another hype bandwagon.
First, Bootstrap did not standardize anything. It's a biased perspective to think so : most websites and most developpers don't even know about bootstrap. And those who know about it do not necessarily agree with it (per exemple I hate their JS coding style.)
Second, the myth about "changing your design without touching HTML". Sure, there're some cases where it's possible, but by experience it won't happen. Never. Sadly (or not), a redesign is always coupled with some HTML changes. Bootstrap does not change anything.
So, I think Bootstrap is far less important than, say, Wordpress was. It's a cool tool, useful for a "design dumb" like me to pull a quick demo without a true designer, but in the end it makes boring websites with boring code. It's also a overhyped tool, which won't survive (along with the whole stupid OOCSS thing.)
It isn't important in and of itself, but that the documentation is more important than the framework itself because as the developer is writing a list for a project, they will write the list in the same way; they will write the dropdown in the same way, rather than spending time copying and pasting and trying to figure out someone else's code and doing it slightly wrong and putting another class into the CSS, so that you have to change every dropdown by hand if requirements change.
That said, I've seen at least one project where people still just made it up as they went along, even though the framework was there. Sometimes, I think people just don't read. :)
It's easy to think that Bootstrap has revolutionized HTML, since the startup community often lives in an echo chamber. The sites we visit and the sites we make use Bootstrap, but let's take a moment to check in with reality here. Has there been a sweeping movement to use standardized markup for content? No. Is there really even a reason to? No. Like mddw said, is this (realistically) even possible? No. And finally, does this article have ANY substance or evidence behind it? No.
What do you consider stupid about OOCSS? It has some valid techniques for dealing with CSS bloat in large web applications. At a certain size, semantic CSS starts to buckle under its own weight. I was able to reduce a ~20,000 line CSS file to ~5,000 by identifying some common UI patterns and changing the markup to use presentational classes.
if bootstrap markup becomes the lingua franca for common UI patterns, that's a plus in my opinion. no need to reinvent the wheel for something like a set of tabs.
Thanks very much for this feedback. I removed this limitation and you can now zoom in. I am very sorry, as this is something I've been willing to fix for a long time.
> this is something I've been willing to fix for a long time
I'm guessing English isn't your native language, so this is a diction note:
You should say "I've been wanting to fix". "willing" is strictly correct, but it conveys that you've been waiting for someone to ask you to fix it. "wanting" conveys that you knew about the problem but hadn't found the time to deal with it.
Nitpick: your explanation works for the far more common term "willing", an adjective. But, through it may sound awkward and very few people would use it this way, could it not also be the participle of "to will"? In this interpretation the use of "willing" is totally correct.
(Also, before saying that I've written this out of some foreign notion of English and that I just wouldn't understand, my own native language is English.)
It's technically correct, but it sounds weird and non-native to me. It requires me to jump through mental hoops to explain how it makes sense. For easy communication, I'd recommend sticking with "wanting" in this situation.
(though I'm not averse to using awkward phrasings or the like in casual situations where clear communication isn't the number one priority. At the moment I'm on a crusade to bring back "thrice" and {h,th,wh}{ence,ither}. )
Thanks! I actually moved to the UK exactly one year ago to improve my speaking/writing English skills, and every suggestion helps. I hesitated when writing this comment and went for "willing" because it sounded good (not a very good way to choose what word to use…).
