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The author makes a good point that's worth exploring, but I think his view misses the point that Bootstrap is really targeted at and most beneficial to those wh
by archildress 12y ago
The author makes a good point that's worth exploring, but I think his view misses the point that Bootstrap is really targeted at and most beneficial to those who aren't full-time developers.
The cartoon near the bottom of the page [1] illustrates what I don't think is a common reality. In it, we see the developer adapting a designer's mock-up (rather poorly) using Bootstrap. To me, your full-time backend developers are not the target audience for Bootstrap and aren't thinking in those terms. The designer who's creating mockups in Photoshop is going to handoff that design to the developer whose task is to use their languages to make a design web friendly.
Still a nice article and definitely got me thinking about who uses Bootstrap and how they use it.
[1] - http://www.punkchip.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/580-bootstraped1.jpg http://www.punkchip.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/580-boots...
- nimblegorilla 12y ago> Bootstrap is really targeted at and most beneficial to those who aren't full-time developers. That statement is false. I'd say Bootstrap is perfect for almost all full-time developers. The only exceptions are the PSD slicing css "developers" trying to implement things like that cartoon. Most "full-time developers" work on projects where functionality trumps style. Bootstrap's default style is good enough for those projects and it saves us tons of time.