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The fact that Bootstrap is widespread, and therefore perceived by some unprofessional, does not make a user using it unprofessional, nor does it make the framew
by jbkkd 11y ago
The fact that Bootstrap is widespread, and therefore perceived by some unprofessional, does not make a user using it unprofessional, nor does it make the framework unprofessional.
Are Django or Flask unprofessional since they are widespread?
- joecarpenter 11y agoUnfortunately, you can't compare development frameworks to UI frameworks. No one knows that you're a dog on the Internet. But anyone without technical knowledge can see a site that's built with the default Bootstrap skin and say - hey, I saw it before. Bootstrap is good and clean framework, it is _great_ for developers. But just because it is so widespread and highly visible, there's some of prejudice around it. Nonetheless, I'm using Bootstrap in my projects and happy with it.
- robertfw 11y agoWhile that is true I think that most users will be oblivious to the commonalities - as developers we are not only familiar with bootstrap but also with the myriad developer-built sites that are more likely to use it
- 91bananas 11y agoI think this prejudice only exists within this community where if you aren't that special snowflake you're not cool. I'd guess 99% of web traffic has no clue what Bootstrap is, what it looks like by default, how it is different when it is skinned. I would guess more than anything that they just think, this is what a website looks like now-a-days. I'm happy to use it too with very minimal tweaking because it looks good out of the box, way more pleasant than browser defaults, it works well, fairly well maintained.