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> While you're surfing the web, you ought to thank Jacob Thornton for making it so pretty. He's a programmer who, along with web designer Mark Otto, created Boo
by floren 6y ago
> While you're surfing the web, you ought to thank Jacob Thornton for making it so pretty. He's a programmer who, along with web designer Mark Otto, created Bootstrap, free software that the pros use to make their sites look spiffy. If you've ever noticed that a lot of websites have the same big chunky buttons, or the same clean forms, that's likely because an estimated one-fifth of all websites on the planet use Bootstrap.
I don't blame Jacob, but man the WWW would probably be better without Bootstrap. Again, it's not Jacob's fault, he made a product that was so good everyone wanted to use it... so everyone used it. It feels like the Demolition Man future, where Taco Bell is the only survivor of the Franchise Wars.
- joshu 6y agois it really necessary to complain about this?
- shp0ngle 6y agoI very much disagree. Bootstrap is good and makes making websites quickly easy. The ideas of Bootstrap now live in Tailwind and other CSS frameworks. I haven’t used Bootstrap proper when I switched to Tailwind in new projects though.
- ehwhyreally 6y agoBootstrap is nothing like tailwind. nor their ideals. You look at 2 websites made in tailwind and they look completely different. Look at bootstrap and its the same bloody site.
- shp0ngle 6y agoThe ideals are same - the CSS classes are not named by the semantic content, but by what they actually do. Tailwind just take it more to the extremes.
- dageshi 6y agoIf bootstrap didn't become the de facto standard, something else would've, nobody wants to design every site in the world from scratch.