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> The compiled default CSS file weighs in at a comparatively tiny 30k, versus approximately 100k for Bootstrap and almost 200k for Foundation. At first I was s
by Kudos 14y ago
> The compiled default CSS file weighs in at a comparatively tiny 30k, versus approximately 100k for Bootstrap and almost 200k for Foundation.
At first I was sceptical that this was even close to a fair comparison, however even after stripping Bootstrap back to comparable functionality its CSS still weighs in at 68KB.
I will be watching this project with interest, but I think it probably needs a lot more use before all the edge case bugs (that Bootstrap has probably already dealt with) get ironed out.
- johnx123-up 14y agoI'm not the original author. I don't know how you checked that. But... 1. https://github.com/cbrauckmuller/helium/blob/master/css/master.css https://github.com/cbrauckmuller/helium/blob/master/css/mast... 41kb (with whitespace) 2. YUI Minified 33kb 3. Minfied + gzip 5.8kb
- waxjar 14y agoHe stripped Bootstrap of the functionality not included in Helium and compressed that. The README most likely lists the compressed version of the full Bootstrap library. 5.8kb is impressive, though.
- ricardobeat 14y agoFortunately CSS is logic-less, which means there isn't much to worry about bugs :)
- nwh 14y agoThere's still cross-browser compatibility issues, fringe cases that lead to unexpected behaviour, and so forth. Even if not typical of executing code, I'd still refer to those as bugs.
- mistagrrr 14y agoFoundation (with everything) compiles to 84k if output_style is set to :compressed in the Compass config.rb file. The 200k size for Foundation is fully commented, non-production css.