I was investigating CSS "frameworks" (or rather widget libraries) recently
and Bootstrap isn't really good choice for fast, mobile-optimized
applications.
*Bootstrap* serves its purpose when it comes to mobile-ready, responsive
pages, but it does poor job when someone wants to build fast mobile
application.
Bootstrap's poor performance is also very perceivable in hybrid
development - I tried a sample app in Cordova and it's quite slow /wrt
rendering and transitions (btw, I have tried Kris' devnexus
AngularJS/AeroGear app [1] there as well ;-).
I have tried *Topcoat* personally and it is really fast, though it's
incomplete yet (0.5 was released a week ago, which contains barely half
of the "widgets" that jQuery mobile could provide).
However I really like where *Topcoat* is directed.
There is a sample application [2, 3] which integrates Topcoat with
Backbone and it's impressively fast in Chrome on Android.
I have tried it in Cordova and it's also fast there. (however Cordova
suffers from integration with out-dated WebKit (the one from built-in
Android browser) thus there are some issues with rendering).
(People are also reporting that current *jQuery Mobile* is too slow for
web/hybrid development if you expect the app to be as fast as native.)
Btw the best mobile widget library I have seen so far /wrt performance
and completeness is *Ratchet* [4] (though it has Apple-ish look&feel).
It works really smooth in Cordova - there is an AngularJS sample app [5]).
~ Lukas
[1]
https://github.com/kborchers/aerogear-devnexus
[2]
http://coenraets.org/apps/directory/backbone/topcoat/
[3]
http://coenraets.org/blog/2013/06/sample-mobile-phonegap-application-with...
[4]
http://maker.github.io/ratchet/
[5]
https://github.com/raveenb/phonegap-angular-ratchet
--
Lukas Fryc
Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat
https://twitter.com/lfryc
On 07/08/2013 09:20 PM, 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.
>
> Ready, Go.
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