Mastering Bootstrap
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- detritus0
Sorry, what do you get for that — someone else's minimal theme (and I mean, minimal - that's just a CSS file that 'tidies up' HTML) and the barest start of a JS library?
And then — how much effort does it take to strip down BS to that size?
Personally, i think that's a pretty bad start to a website. Makes more sense to add-in functionality where needed, rather than strip away at a convoluted hodgepodge.
I've not got anything against Bootstrap per se, but when it's used as the foundation for otherwise simplistic mobile sites, by people whose idea of web design is 'adding and then perhaps tweaking a theme', I think you end up with a solution that wholly undermines it's raison d'etre from the off.
BS is good for teaching people good practice, standardisation, responsive mobile techniques and then acting as a prototyping boilerplate.
Imho, it is NOT a production boilerplate, especially for mobile.
But what do I know? I'm old and past it and all the young kids' standards are different and weird and wrong...
- I think it does a bit more than tidying up HTML. If you've worked on a product that your users have to customize, it gives them a starting point they may be familiar with, if not, there's tons of documentation on it. Also, being a modular framework is a huge advantage
cardeo
- I think it does a bit more than tidying up HTML. If you've worked on a product that your users have to customize, it gives them a starting point they may be familiar with, if not, there's tons of documentation on it. Also, being a modular framework is a huge advantage