The advent of Twitter Bootstrap is 19 years overdue. To have a common framework for UI and UX finally that's widely adopted, I should hope people would learn th

The advent of Twitter Bootstrap is 19 years overdue. To have a common framework for UI and UX finally that's widely adopted, I should hope people would learn their lessons now and build a more standard interface for their sites as these lessons were already learned on the desktop the hard way. There is a reason every GUI OS has standard components (windows, buttons, menus, etc). The web badly needs this to let the user focus on the interaction and the app and to allow them to pick up and learn any app easily. There will be some exceptions, but ideally, we should take a cue from what people worked very hard over the years to built knowing it was the right paradigm (rather than the DOS app whatever goes or game interfaces which are a good example of the exception to the rule). Mac OS and OS X, Windows, X-Windows (Motif, QT, GTK, etc.), OS2, et al. The fanciness of sites is indeed, usually a detriment to usability and a detriment to their development, adding useless eye candy rather than useful functionality.