Discuss: Building Twitter Bootstrap

1 Great job! Thank you!

We’ve been working with Bootstrap since it first came out. Soon our new webapp (Richmetrics.com) will be released and it’s all based on Bootstrap. Heavily modified but still, the building blocks is in there. It’s been a pleasure to work with Bootstrap! Thanks for the insight.

posted at 07:45 am on January 17, 2012 by akebrattberg

2 Where's mobile?

It looks great on the desktop! But sadly it’s not mobile/responsive/adaptive, etc.

posted at 08:01 am on January 17, 2012 by erogers

3 Bootstraped

Great article, Bootstrap really takes things to the next level. I am interested to hear a little more about how you decided to include Less in the project. For myself, working with Sass allows an immense degree of flexibility that CSS just doesn’t provide for large frameworks. Bootstrap is pioneering these new styling systems and I am fascinated to see where this takes us. Like the leap to content management systems from HTML, will this be a leap to style management systems?

Great stuff and thanks for writing and making Bootstrap open source!

posted at 09:25 am on January 17, 2012 by Scott Kellum

4 Built Wit

Mark, you’ve done a great job with Bootstrap. I absolutely love it. IT’s rejuvenated my development experience – I really am no designer, but Bootstrap has helped me to knock out some simple UIs for various projects and ideas – it really has been a joy to use.

Thank you! And thanks for your support with Built With Bootstrap. It’s been amazing to see what hundreds of other developers and designers have been able to do with this brilliant toolkit.

posted at 11:32 am on January 17, 2012 by simonhamp

5 Great job!

Mark I want to thank for putting all this together. Bootstrap helps us cut costs and speed product launch.

posted at 01:15 pm on January 17, 2012 by @eduardovilar

6

erogers, if you take a look at the 2.0 branch on the Bootstrap Github repo you’ll see a bunch of responsive goodness. So it is coming, just not released quite yet.

posted at 05:05 pm on January 17, 2012 by Jeff Adams

7 v 2.0

Thanks a ton for Twitter Bootstrap… I am now eagerly waiting for v 2.0… Is there any expected date of release?

posted at 09:51 pm on January 17, 2012 by anandanjaria

8 Separating structure from presentation

In the ALA Topics description for this article it says “Proper document markup. Separating structure from presentation and behavior.” I fail to see how any grid system separates structure from presentation. Markup such as class=“span6” or class=“col_6” are clearly presentational classnames.

posted at 08:16 am on January 18, 2012 by shawndones

9

There are many of these types of tools out there by other good folks trying to do exactly what you are trying to achieve. Simple prototyping with responsive grid layouts is enviable goal, how does your project differ from others (such as Foundation – http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/)?

posted at 02:19 pm on January 19, 2012 by clintonpaquin

10 quirky quibble

A great tool, just a quibble:

> As one last step during abstraction to Bootstrap,
> we opted to have the behavior triggered on click
> rather than on hover

Would be handy if the user gets to choose—messing with the JS source might not be advisable.

posted at 06:16 am on January 20, 2012 by Mykola