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One of the sad realities of the web was proliferation of bootstrap everywhere. IIRC it was intended as a prototyping framework at first. But even sadder is gri

• stephenr 8y ago
  For 'business CRUD' interfaces, choosing something like Bootstrap is a good option. Record lists and entry edit forms etc generally don't need a designers eye.
  • noir_lord 8y ago
    Agreed, That's certainly what I do and how I use it, also BS4 is very modular, you can tear out all the bits you don't use (or comment them out in case you ever do need them) and it's relatively trivial to alter other things (I use a 24-col grid with a 16px gutter width instead of the default 12/30 etc). I could replicate the bits I use from bootstrap using something else or from scratch but the RoI in terms of time invested just makes no sense. I don't think I've ever used bootstrap 'as is' since 2, I generally create something similar to a 'theme' that is layered on top of whatever is BS-current, makes upgrading a lot less painful that way since I isolate a lot of my changes. The big advantage is done right you leverage all the thousands of bug reports to fix things without overly constraining yourself.
• tomcam 8y ago
  Why is that bad if you have users with older browsers? I have thousands of paying customers with a very wide range of browsers. Why should I make their lives harder by using flexgrid?