Hi,

I can't judge the implementation or performance. I'll take people's word on that, though I don't think it's the most important thing.

The default style will be overridden with our own, no matter what framework we'll be using. So style is irrelevant here really. I agree that people should stop using the Bootstrap style everywhere, it looks lame (but the same can be said for Topcoat once it gets adopted more).

I've downloaded Topcoat and had a look inside. I don't see any components, just a few simple element stylings. If that all Topcoat is, it probably makes more sense to do all the CSS custom, as it will be almost as much work as retheming everything and there's not really a point having a CSS framework at all then. We can grab our missing components from Bootstrap (or something else), and make some components from scratch where the Bootstrap components are suboptimal.

So the style elements being equal, I think Bootstrap would give us a head start due to a better selection of components that we need. So I want to vouch for that one.

Thanks,

Hylke



On 08/07/2013 21:55, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
If Luke/Kris want to use Topcoat for a good number of reasons, I am +9001 on that.



On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Kris Borchers <kris@redhat.com> wrote:
Topcoat is a nice and clean CSS framework.

Bootstrap is a messy framework dirtied by some half-assed JS based widgets that don't work well in most cases.

The few widgets we may need could probably be done with pure CSS, or a small jQuery plugin. No need for the bootstrap mess. Also, every site using bootstrap, for the most part, still looks like bootstrap and that's annoying.

On Jul 8, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno@abstractj.org> wrote:

> I'm not a UI specialist, but I do like Topcoat
>
> Lucas Holmquist wrote:
>> Starting a new thread for this:
>>
>>
>>> I would like to reboot the discussion of css frameworks
>>>
>>> the 2 that are in question are bootstrap and topcoat.
>>>
>>> i would like to here why one is "better" than the other. or why the
>>> preference.
>>>
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