Man, I love bootstrap. Not only is it pretty well design from the front end and back end. The less files that are architected are awesome, I wouldn't have thought of it on my own. The guys built it for full customization for advance programmers and dead simple for beginners. Keep up the good work!
The only disadvantage to this is that all startups are now 'lazy' and begin using bootstrap default theme colors and styles -- which makes all website look the same. I'm not sure whether I feel that we're losing creativity for people who want to play with colors or we're losing the ability to actually code up some CSS to make things pretty. (Just my opinion).
Dropping support for IE7 was a good idea. I believe that is the next browser we're killing after IE6, right? After all, who keeps versions of browser these days? I mean I lost count when Chrome updates for me -- and Firefox is on rapid release (18) now. I can't keep up remember all these numbers and browsers!
Please keep up the good work! Bootstrap is an awesome framework for the web!
I'll take the time to say thanks too, since they seem to be following this.
We've long had lots of open source infrastructure like Linux, Rails, Postgres, Apache, and so on and so forth that was very much a "by programmers, for programmers" affair. It's very nice to get some "design" infrastructure - Bootstrap has made my sites look a lot better, and I get compliments from people.
Pretty much everything in Bootstrap is gray-scale , with the exception of things with semantic function: red=error/danger, amber=caution, green=success.
The only exceptions are "primary" buttons (which was blue by default but based on the link color the last time I checked), info which is pale blue, and code samples which are pink.
I'm not in the slightest way artistic, but I feel if those (incredibly easily overriden) usages hold you back from expressing yourself with color then you're probably best not to bother and so it's a net-win either way.
In my opinion that is AWESOME that lazy startups are defaulting to basic bootstrap theme. 1) It is WAY better than the crap that a non-design oriented engineer would come up with and 2) it lays an awesome foundation for a designer to come in and make improvements. Usually engineers write the first 10,000 lines of code on a project so give them a dead simple UI framework so they don't create something horrible in it's place.
Maybe they could add support for color scheme designers to the customized version (such as kuler.adobe.com or colorschemedesigner.com, which are works of art in my opinion).
Also, some things are difficult to modify. What if I want two navbars, one with a different height than the other? Some tweaks seem pretty difficult to make.
The only disadvantage to this is that all startups are now 'lazy' and begin using bootstrap default theme colors and styles -- which makes all website look the same. I'm not sure whether I feel that we're losing creativity for people who want to play with colors or we're losing the ability to actually code up some CSS to make things pretty. (Just my opinion).
Dropping support for IE7 was a good idea. I believe that is the next browser we're killing after IE6, right? After all, who keeps versions of browser these days? I mean I lost count when Chrome updates for me -- and Firefox is on rapid release (18) now. I can't keep up remember all these numbers and browsers!
Please keep up the good work! Bootstrap is an awesome framework for the web!