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The thing I hate most about bootstrap 3 is changing the class names of the grid. "span3" and "offset1" were much better than "col-lg-3" and "col-offset-1". Ser

by pzxc 13y ago

The thing I hate most about bootstrap 3 is changing the class names of the grid. "span3" and "offset1" were much better than "col-lg-3" and "col-offset-1". Seriously... there are several places in the docs (and I often do this myself) where a non-grid-related element uses a "span2" or whatever to float itself left and size itself equal to a 2-width column. Example: the input field for a search box. When input-medium/small/mini/large/xlarge doesn't cut it, or just because you want something to fit in a column. So now we're gonna have "col-lg-2" etc plastered throughout our html? I don't see that as an improvement. The elements that get used the most should have simple names... that's what made bootstrap great as it was a common-sense standard for lots of common html/css techniques. "hide" for display:none, "muted" for color:#999, etc.

vec 13y ago
I'm guessing that it's stealing the small and large grids from Zurb Foundation.
- liquidise 13y ago
  My thoughts exactly. Foundation has always had a superior responsive grid layout, if for no other reason than it is embed-able within itself. To say nothing of their push and pull column classes.
bjoe_lewis 13y ago
+1. span12 and span6 makes much more sense as a class name, than a col-lg-3 or a col-sm-6. If they are stealing from the foundation, and if differentiating large and small grid was the cause for changing identifiers, then I'm against it. Other than that, I'm liking it already.
mikegirouard 13y ago
First thing I thought was that this was the reason why I abandoned YUI grids. That and the subdividing boxes thing. I've gotten great mileage with unsemantic[0], and purely by an accidental google, I stumbled across semantic[1]. The latter is particularly interesting to me, but our firm has been burned by CSS preprocessors in the past and making a case for LESS is going to require a sell. [0]: http://unsemantic.com/ http://unsemantic.com/ [1]: http://semantic.gs/ http://semantic.gs/

by pzxc 13y ago

vec 13y ago

I'm guessing that it's stealing the small and large grids from Zurb Foundation.

liquidise 13y ago
My thoughts exactly. Foundation has always had a superior responsive grid layout, if for no other reason than it is embed-able within itself. To say nothing of their push and pull column classes.

bjoe_lewis 13y ago

+1. span12 and span6 makes much more sense as a class name, than a col-lg-3 or a col-sm-6. If they are stealing from the foundation, and if differentiating large and small grid was the cause for changing identifiers, then I'm against it. Other than that, I'm liking it already.

mikegirouard 13y ago

First thing I thought was that this was the reason why I abandoned YUI grids. That and the subdividing boxes thing. I've gotten great mileage with unsemantic[0], and purely by an accidental google, I stumbled across semantic[1]. The latter is particularly interesting to me, but our firm has been burned by CSS preprocessors in the past and making a case for LESS is going to require a sell. [0]: http://unsemantic.com/ http://unsemantic.com/ [1]: http://semantic.gs/ http://semantic.gs/