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Front-End CSS Frameworks
- dleskov 14y agoPreprocessor information is absolutely necessary. High-level, vague descriptions are not. Instead, I'd have some indicators of maturity, complexity and such - year introduced, version number, lines of code, documentation quality (okay, the last one is subjective.) Actively developed/maintained or not? Author name?
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- niggler 14y agoWhat does "Free" mean in the context of licenses? Looking at a few of those it appears that some don't actually specify, which is dangerous: "Because I did not explicitly indicate a license, I declared an implicit copyright without explaining how others could use my code. Since the code is unlicensed, I could theoretically assert copyright at any time and demand that people stop using my code." http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-license.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-...
- pdubs 14y agoThere's a couple flavors of Creative Commons licenses too, which work well for artwork and media, but are terrible for source code.
- leeoniya 14y agomay want to add http://groundwork.sidereel.com/ http://groundwork.sidereel.com/
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- ads1018 14y agohttp://gumbyframework.com/ http://gumbyframework.com/
- afshinmeh 14y agoGood news, could you create a pull request on Github?
- lhm 14y agothere's also Susy, which builds on sass and compass: http://susy.oddbird.net/ http://susy.oddbird.net/
- afshinmeh 14y agoNice, we could add it also. Seems a useful responsive framework.
- cseelus 14y agoIn contrast to Bootstrap and many other CSS frameworks we tested, Susy really enables you to write semantic, non-bloated HTML which can be strictly independent of the CSS you throw at it.
- nathos 14y agoTHIS. I think Bootstrap is great for prototyping & back-end admin UIs that a developer might slap together without a designer, but the sheer number of sites that take user-facing sites to production w/ Bootstrap is disconcerting.
- rjd 14y agoAwesome thanks for this. Only thing I could recommend would be an extra column for any processor :)
- rsilk 14y agoGreat list. I really appreciate the graphic used to distinguish platform support (responsive vs not). Much easier on the eyes than a written list of supported screen sizes for each framework. Would it also be useful to list the underlying language used for each framework (plain CSS, LESS, Stylus, etc) in case you plan on customizing?
- carlsednaoui 14y agoI would definitely add http://roots.cx/ http://roots.cx/ to the list.
- jenius 14y agoWhoo! Agreed. A little less 'vanilla css-y' than the other ones here, but there are a bunch of people using it regularly at this point : )
- cpleppert 14y agoLooks nice! It's great that they didn't just write another grid system but used one that was already working.
- afshinmeh 14y agoGreat. We'll add it so.
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- Narretz 14y agoCool. The grid could give a little more information, though, like last version, if widgets are included and other stuff I can't think of. You could also make the column headers sortable; useful if the list gets longer.
- afshinmeh 14y agoYup, good idea.
- Idered 14y agono inuit.css, no upvote :)
- tommccabe 14y agoShould add more context. What makes each one the best?
- afshinmeh 14y agoIt's so hard to tell which one is the best, we provide information and comparison table about frameworks and users can choose the best one.
- jsnk 14y agoI wish I could see the description of each frameworks without the hoverover. That's rather unnecessary.
- J-H 14y agoI know. It's incredibly annoying when people "design" without regard for the UX.
- hackmiester 14y agoOh, thanks - I had no idea you could do this. (I browse with my keyboard the majority of the time.)
- skymt 14y agoThe same information, minus design, is in the project's GitHub readme. https://github.com/usablica/front-end-frameworks https://github.com/usablica/front-end-frameworks
- aydoubleyou 14y agohttp://cssgrid.net/ http://cssgrid.net/ is a pretty good responsive framework as well.
- afshinmeh 14y agoSure you can add it to the list by forking the repository in Github.
- mhr_online 14y agoNice Work Man ;) it's better when using current version + languages & technologies behind them (with icon i mean) By the way: (Damet Garm :D)
- afshinmeh 14y agoMokhlesim :D Yup, good idea. Let's make it better together! Fork it: https://github.com/usablica/front-end-frameworks https://github.com/usablica/front-end-frameworks
- chenster 14y agoSo which one do you use?
- petewailes 14y agoI'm throwing in: Frameless - http://framelessgrid.com/ http://framelessgrid.com/ and OpenDAWS - http://wail.es/opendaws/ http://wail.es/opendaws/ (disclosure - mine) Different way of thinking about grids
- hackin247 14y agoTwitter bootstrap is the shizzle!
- happypeter 14y agoAfter 6 month joy and pain, I finally give up using Bootstrap. It's very obvious that smart people are using BS to build cool site like khanacademy, it's well designed, and it's one of the best CSS framework you can find. But... But for a CSS beginner like me, it's a bit too magical, I wasted a lot of time debugging, I wished I could conquer the complexity, so I tried for 6 months, and now I give up with regret. Bootstrap(or maybe I should say CSS frameworks) is slowing down my development for the past 6 month or so, if you are a front-end newbie, be warned!
- batgaijin 14y agoI think I am going through the same troubles as you. What' the alternative? Foundation? I am going to learn bootsrap because at this point it is the coin of the realm - inspiring other frameworks pros/cons and the # of addons and modifications is just growing too rapidly to ignore.
- arcosdev 14y agoI actually prefer Foundation to Bootstrap
- gavinballard 14y agoAs above in my reply to the parent, if you've got a few minutes available to discuss the troubles you had, I'd love to hear from you.
- gavinballard 14y agoIf you have a few spare minutes of time, I'd be really interested to hear more detail about this - what problems you faced, what you felt was unclear, and what you felt was complex. My email's in my profile if you'd be willing to discuss. CSS frameworks should be speeding up development, not slowing them down so if there's something we can do to make them more accessible, we should find out what that is!
- happypeter 14y agoThx for your attention. I think I am now easily annoyed when people trying to hide complexity from me, and their creature does not work out of the box. Which makes it really hard to fix bugs. And just think how cumbersome it is to overwrite all the variables to get a new navbar look! So now I think I prefer some https://github.com/styleguide/css https://github.com/styleguide/css stuff, plus some really easy to use widgets with good design taste stuff. No more hide and find games, I am tired!