Zurb Foundation 5 Released(foundation.zurb.com)

400 pointsby mos2vor 13 Jahren166 comments

foundation.zurb.com

http://foundation.zurb.com/learn/features.html

173 comments

pwenzelvor 13 Jahren

Changes of note:

"Interchange uses media queries to dynamically load responsive content that is appropriate for different users' browsers.”

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/interchange.html

Offcanvas Javascript (Originally bolt-on, not bundled)

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/offcanvas.html

"Abide is an HTML5 form validation library that supports the native API by using patterns and required attributes."

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/abide.html

Zepto support has been removed from Foundation 5.

Docs are continuing to look better, and they still have docs back to Foundation v2.

Thanks Zurb!

TylerEvor 13 Jahren

The other BIG change is now having a medium size out of the box.

mos2vor 13 Jahren

I'm curious as to why Zepto support was removed. Zurb was pretty big on it for Foundation 3. Smaller size than jQuery, faster load time on mobile, etc. Any ideas why this was scratched?

smileyj68vor 13 Jahren

There were some definite compatibility issues we ran into and while jQuery 2 isn't perfect, it's pretty good, good enough we felt confident switching back from Zepto. Nothing against Zepto, just pragmatism.

feinvor 13 Jahren

Also, no changes to the class and attribute semantics (that I've found yet)!

The only migration that should have to happen at this point is JS fixes.

mos2vor 13 Jahren

There is a migration guide detailing all of the changes in JS:

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/upgrading.html

as well as a migration plugin that will allow you to use the f4 style js and get deprecation warnings via the console:

https://github.com/zurb/foundation-migrate

dkochvor 13 Jahren

What do people recommend for functionality similar to Interchange on a Bootstrap 3 site?

elithrarvor 13 Jahren

> What do people recommend for functionality similar to Interchange on a Bootstrap 3 site?

Why not just use Interchange itself?

dkochvor 13 Jahren

It seems to have dependencies on core Foundation Javascript. I don't think it can be used stand-alone.

bmeltonvor 13 Jahren

I've been looking through this, trying to remember why I recently switched to Bootstrap. Was it a widget that was missing? Maybe a date-picker? Foundation doesn't really have date-pickers and such.

Hrm. Oh, right. It was angular-ui, which uses Bootstrap.

Angular integration for any of these projects is a BIG win. Because of that, I'm eagerly awaiting an RC for Angular-Semantic[1], so that I can cut over to Semantic-UI, which is, I think, best of breed as far as these frontend aesthetics go.

[1] - https://github.com/caitp/angular-semantic.

bluejaythemesvor 13 Jahren

Here’s a datepicker for Foundation.

https://github.com/najlepsiwebdesigner/foundation-datepicker

Bahamutvor 13 Jahren

Angular UI Bootstrap is CSS agnostic - you can use it with Foundation just fine

bmeltonvor 13 Jahren

I'm aware of that, but there are styling differences between Foundation and Bootstrap.

The Angular-UI implementation, while self-contained, is going to have a different .modal() implementation than Foundation's, so there's always going to be relics in the implementation.

Implementing twice the framework for the same functionality seems a sure fire way to induce headaches.

Your advice isn't wrong, and worked great for a good number of months, but requires ignoring the JS components of Foundation altogether, which somewhat negates the benefits of having a big ol' framework in the first place (IMHO).

Bahamutvor 13 Jahren

I find ignoring the JS component to work great for me - I override the UI Bootstrap templates and adapt it to work how I want.

NKCSSvor 13 Jahren

I've recently done a project with Semantic-UI, and there are still a lot of gocha's with specific nestings you'll have to follow and some ui blocks that don't mix wel, but the worst thing for me are the modals. If you have more than one modal, you will get both modals being triggered at some times, sometimes, you'll get the fade in/out animation 2 or 3 times, etc.

It's still a young project, and imho one of the best looking ones, but there are still a lot of quirks to work out.

taudevor 13 Jahren

I've started shying away from Angular a little because it's not very simple to work with existing JQuery and JavaScript components with having to re-wrap everything in directives (and supporting it when the underlining components change) has become a huge-PIA....

scotthvor 13 Jahren

I recently made the same decision.

chrismorganvor 13 Jahren

I'm puzzled about the switch from camelCase to snake_case for JS as shown in http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/upgrading.html#javascript-va.... The clear convention in JavaScript is camelCase, why switch away from it? (I say this as someone who in normal life using Python and Rust uses and prefers snake_case but who uses camelCase when writing JavaScript.)

avolcanovor 13 Jahren

This is insane.

I have literally never seen a large-scale open source project or JS style guide that uses snake_case.

The DOM is camelCase. jQuery is camelCase. Node APIs are camelCase. Why on earth do Zurb think their library is any different?

__david__vor 13 Jahren

> This is insane.

Really? Why on earth would you care? What if they were to indent their code with 3 spaces? Would that be "insane", too? What if they don't like putting in unnecessary braces around one line "if" statements? Insane?

It's a (very common) stylistic choice. It's hardly insane.

avolcanovor 13 Jahren

It's a public API meant for consumption by other developers, 95-99% of which are going to be use camelCase.

I don't care what their code looks like internally. I do care about the public interface to it.

jakethehumanvor 13 Jahren

>What if they were to indent their code with 3 spaces?

Whoa there buddy! Put the gun down...

jakethehumanvor 13 Jahren

>What if they were to indent their code with 3 spaces?

Whoa buddy! Put down the gun...

On a serious note... is this trolling or are people seriously complaining about camel-case vs snake-case?

jakethehumanvor 13 Jahren

jimmytucsonvor 13 Jahren

Meteor did, at least in the beginning.

camus2vor 13 Jahren

While I hate camelCase, i have to agree, javascript core lib uses camelCase and PascalCase , so should 3rd party libraries.

smrtinsertvor 13 Jahren

What has this site come to...

Spiritusvor 13 Jahren

I wouldn't mind if more projects did this to be honest.

lowboyvor 13 Jahren

I would, just because it causes fragmentation. PEP-8[0] is a big win for Python. Javascript relies on adhoc standards and best practice docs from respected entities.

I'm open to change and debate, but it should be approached carefully.

[0]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

jessedhillonvor 13 Jahren

To be fair, at the time JS was developed, there was a body of well-documented knowledge involving camelCasing. First and foremost was, of course, Java. There are various RFCs involving LDAP schemas as well -- I recall seeing a hilarious document once describing how to properly name the attribute corresponding to an entity's certificate:

   cACertificate*

Talk about slavish consistency.

[deleted]vor 13 Jahren

Segmentationvor 13 Jahren

> The clear convention in JavaScript is camelCase, why switch away from it?

Citation?

chrisfarmsvor 13 Jahren

Let's just try some searches for some common names using github code search with a ".js" extension filter

hideImage vs hide_image: 424 vs 50

toggleItem vs toggle_item: 1022 vs 52

clickElement vs click_element: 3469 vs 368

Coding conventions by statistics :)

https://github.com/search?q=searchPage+extension%3Ajs&type=C...

paisawallavor 13 Jahren

How would you even expect this to be cited?

Seriously, does someone need to crawl every Javascript project on Github and compile statistics on naming styles before they can make an obviously true statement like this? The fact that camelCase is the norm in the language and browser environment is obvious to anyone who has written even a modest amount of JS.

   notQuantified != false

cstiglervor 13 Jahren

notQuantified !== false

to avoid type coercion here

mendelkvor 13 Jahren

S/he was using CoffeeScript, obviously! :)

madeofpalkvor 13 Jahren

> crawl every Javascript project on Github and compile statistics on naming styles

You mean... like this? http://sideeffect.kr/popularconvention/#javascript

Unfortuantely there's no stat there for camelCase for Javascript.

ceejayozvor 13 Jahren

> Citation?

Well, it's sure as hell not window.set_timeout, window.clear_interval, window.on_load, etc.

lowboyvor 13 Jahren

Javascript was created in camelCase, and most major open source projects I've used have been camelCase. I can't find any data on it, but it fits with my experience for what that's worth.

wildermuthnvor 13 Jahren

Suggestion:

JavaScript.

janusvor 13 Jahren

Camel cased would actually be javaScript

Stratoscopevor 13 Jahren

Idiomatic JavaScript code uses both PascalCase and camelCase.

Constructors use PascalCase; variables and methods use camelCase.

So, it's OK to call it JavaScript! :-)

babyvor 13 Jahren

Wow, that was fast !

I love Foundation, but I had to switch to Boostrap because I found it... ugly. And Bootstrap is great to quickly create "pretty" prototypes. But I've always found Foundation having better... foundations. I've used both on numerous projects and here's my take :

* The grid system now looks like bootstrap, and I don't like that. You have to choose the type of column you want to use (and I don't want to be bothered by that). so no .six anymore, it's .medium-6 or .large-6 or .small-6... They should call the .small-6 just .six so we know its the default one.

* It does look a bit better, although they removed styling of the radiobox in forms? Why?

* Overall I still prefer bootstrap's theme, I wish Foundation would offer an optional theme like bootstrap 3 does.

* OffCanvas menu is great ! I can already see plenty of applications (but for mobile only)

* The CLI is a nice thing to have but I'm gonna stay away from it. I like the easiness of copypasting files to quickly begin a small project.

* Documentation is hard to go through, doesn't allow to glance at what it offers. It's a huge improvement from F4 or F3 though.

* I use sublime text snippets all the time and this might be a huge addition!

* I like the JS that verifies forms. I usually always use this on my projects so it's nice to have it by default.

Overall I don't really know if I should switch back to Foundation. But I'll definitely use it for my next project to see how good it is.

ollysbvor 13 Jahren

> I love Foundation, but I had to switch to Boostrap because I found it... ugly.

I consider this is a strength, the styling is thinner so it's easier to customise. Bootstrap can feel like a bit of a battle if you want to customise it a lot. I think bootstrap is perfect for admin pages but for something a bit more custom I think foundation strikes a good balance.

babyvor 13 Jahren

yup, if I want to start a big project from scratch I'll tend towards Foundation.

But if I need to prototype something quickly, make a beautiful admin etc... I'll use Bootstrap. And I'm so used to use bootstrap that I use it for big projects as well now.

Also Bootstrap 3 is a lot easier to customize.

rok3vor 13 Jahren

Yeah, I use Foundation for sites because I know that I'm going to completely customize the CSS.

I use Bootstrap for web apps because I rarely need to write any CSS to get a working beta that looks nice. After I've gotten input back from the initial users I'll go back and customize the look.

pacomerhvor 13 Jahren

Well the ugly aspect is good, you wouldn't want Foundation to style your website out of the box, I don't think that's the point of these libraries.

vocinovor 13 Jahren

Interesting that I prefer Foundation (if I had to choose one or the other) over Bootstrap for exactly that reason: it's uglier.

Whenever I see a new app thingy launch with Bootstrap buttons I cringe a little bit. At least Foundation forces you to make some decisions about how you're presenting things to your users rather than just leaving it how it is (although we've all seen default Foundation apps too).

[deleted]vor 13 Jahren

chrisblackwellvor 13 Jahren

This framework is so much further along than Bootstrap is, and the team at Zurb seems to iterate much faster then the Bootstrap team.

at-fates-handsvor 13 Jahren

I started to notice that and have since moved over to it now. The feature updates and add-ons are coming much faster with Foundation than Bootstrap IMO.

khalilravannavor 13 Jahren

One thing to note is that while both frameworks are open source, Foundation is backed by a company (Zurb).

kyriakosvor 13 Jahren

I believe Foundation is much better for front-end design than Bootstrap. The main benefit of Bootstrap is in backend design because it managed to get more popular and consequently its much easier to find 'bootstrap ready' js based widgets etc

lowboyvor 13 Jahren

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but how does Bootstrap's popularity make it better for backend design?

KaoruAoiShihovor 13 Jahren

I think he's confusing javascript with "backend".

colinramsayvor 13 Jahren

Backend as in administration systems, rather than frontend which is client-facing?

stevejohnsonvor 13 Jahren

That's my interpretation of the comment, and real-world experience. I've written two admin sites with Bootstrap because it has all the widgets and plugins I might need on short notice.

kyriakosvor 13 Jahren

Thats exactly what I meant. Sorry for the confusion!

flipchartvor 13 Jahren

I use Bootstrap exclusively, but I've played with Foundation (back on version 3). But honestly, I can't see what the difference in the frameworks are. Do you have a reference comparing them so that I could see what I'm missing?

tnorthcuttvor 13 Jahren

I looked at the project on Github [1] and the latest tagged release is 4.3.2. It seems odd that they'd release 5.0 for download on their website before tagging it on Github; is there a particular reason for that?

1: https://github.com/zurb/foundation

peterjmitvor 13 Jahren

Yep, I thought it was weird. The foundation gem is using this repository https://github.com/zurb/bower-foundation though (not tagged, but 5.0 nonetheless)

kderbevor 13 Jahren

Can you explain the benefit of defining media queries with em's rather than pixels? It seems like an unnecessary layer of mental translation for developers, given that you deem it necessary to list px-equivalents in the CSS comments. [1]

Also, the medium/large screen sizes in Interchange don't align with the media query sizes. Interchange says 1024px wide is large, [2] but the media query says 1024px wide is medium. Or is it just a documentation error?

[1] http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/media-queries.html

[2] http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/interchange.html#...

Flenservor 13 Jahren

This explains the benefits:

http://blog.cloudfour.com/the-ems-have-it-proportional-media...

Here's some boilerplate code:

https://github.com/johannaruiz/propotional-mqs

Make sure you set the viewport correctly:

http://blog.javierusobiaga.com/stop-using-the-viewport-tag-u...

as an incorrect viewport can cause issues with some mobile browsers:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2013/11/a_day_in_the...

spitfirevor 13 Jahren

So for the HTML deficient are there any template sites for foundation yet? These exist for bootstrap, and for someone who doesn't have even a single bone of design talent in his body they're a godsend.

tnorthcuttvor 13 Jahren

http://themeforest.net/collections/3435762-zurb-foundation-t...

http://www.themplio.com/categories/foundation-free

gopher1vor 13 Jahren

Yes, they have some bare bones templates here: http://foundation.zurb.com/templates.html

bluejaythemesvor 13 Jahren

Hi. Our company, Blue Jay Themes, specializes in making good-looking Foundation themes. Please follow us on Twitter and we’ll let you know when we launch in just a couple of weeks. Another great way to stay updated is by subscribing to our newsletter, which can be found on our website. Thanks.

http://www.bluejaythemes.com/ http://www.twitter.com/bluejaythemes

alok-gvor 13 Jahren

Do you really need to verify email addresses on the newsletter-signup form? Are you seeing abuse where a bad person signs up someone else?

vcherubinivor 13 Jahren

Verifying email addresses is vitally important for building a high quality list. Otherwise, you can easily sign up other people for the list, they get essentially a spam email, report it as spam, and all of a sudden your list is crap because they didn't have double opt-in.

Keep double opt-in, it's necessary (and I think required in Mailchimp's case unless you use the API directly).

bluejaythemesvor 13 Jahren

Thanks for this comment. Double opt-in makes a lot more sense now. We’re definitely gonna stick with it.

[deleted]vor 13 Jahren

codegeekvor 13 Jahren

I found this even though there is not that many themes yet.

http://www.foundationmade.com

scottydvor 13 Jahren

FoundationMade owner here. We're still working on adding themes to the collection, but it hasn't been easy. Hopefully with extra attention on Foundation 5 in general it will bring in some extra Foundation theme developers.

tlongrenvor 13 Jahren

I think you'd like this: http://patterntap.com/code

frakkingcylonsvor 13 Jahren

I just finished the redesign of my entire site to use Foundation 4 instead of Bootstrap last night. I'm laughing tears right now...

lowboyvor 13 Jahren

Hopefully by v5 they'll have kept the changes non-breaking.

edit: Apparently it's mostly js fixes for migration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6776912

ethntvor 13 Jahren

You should be fine, there aren't many class/selector changes, AFAIK. You may need to do some JS fixes, but that's it.

gopher1vor 13 Jahren

Same, T_T but thankfully I'm not using many components, and seems easy to upgrade.

Kequcvor 13 Jahren

I'm also surprised with the relative speediness of this release.

masklinnvor 13 Jahren

Damn, it's gone completely broken on old firefox engines http://i.imgur.com/HAR8Rjz.png (yeah I'm still using Camino when I can get away with it)

nawariatavor 13 Jahren

I get same result with Opera 12.16.

caiobvor 13 Jahren

I guess that's a good thing. They're pushing the web forward.

caiobvor 13 Jahren

I would love to know why I got doubled-down with this answer.

ultrasandwichvor 13 Jahren

Looks like it dropped support for IE8, which unfortunately eliminates this as an option for a lot of client work. Seems like a solid go-to for more forward-thinking projects though.

ericcholisvor 13 Jahren

Year to date 27% of our IE users are on 8 or less, which oddly enough accounts for 27% of our revenue from visitors using IE. IE 8 or less is 10% of our site revenue. I simply cannot exclude 10% of our revenue.

With that being said, traffic from IE 8 or less is down 58% from last year. Windows XP isn't going to die fast enough for me to begin supporting Foundation 4+.

I could push Firefox or Chrome aggressively, but that's an unfriendly half-measure.

TylerEvor 13 Jahren

I suspect that will no longer the case much longer, if it's not already. One of the sites I run has a VERY non-techncical/older skewing customer base, and even in that group IE <= 8.0 is down to 12% of traffic, from about 28% a year ago.

Also, a year ago non-IE browsers were split pretty much 50/50 with IE, but now down to about 35/65. (Chrome and Safari were the big risers, Firefox actually dropped from 2nd to 5th)

highstepvor 13 Jahren

...this being Foundations greatest failure. Until IE8 is under 2% usage, it going to be hard to convince an ecommerce client that it's OK to leave these users on the table. Sure we can implement workarounds, but that adds a lot of overhead to development.

Does it not make sense for a front-end framework to handle cross-browser compatibility for us?

gopher1vor 13 Jahren

Foundation 4 had also dropped IE8 support.

For basic stuff like the grid, it's quite easy to manually add IE8 support, given that you're never going to be seeing IE8 on a mobile phone or tablet. For some of the more advanced components you could run into issues.

kibibuvor 13 Jahren

I don't think Foundation 4 supported IE8.

It's not a huge deal except for the navbar, which is horribly broken in IE8. There are workarounds though.

te_chrisvor 13 Jahren

I'm more curious about this which is mentioned on the page: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/ has anyone got it working with rails? Faster SASS compilation would make life much better (especially when bootstrap or compass are involved).

vincentmacvor 13 Jahren

Just took a closer look at this. Yes they are using libsass. They are using it with grunt and grunt-sass (https://github.com/sindresorhus/grunt-sass), which uses node-sass (https://github.com/andrew/node-sass).

There are other implementations available: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/wiki/Implementations

rurounijonesvor 13 Jahren

https://github.com/hcatlin/sassruby - Written by the same guy, ruby wrapper around libsass. I am pretty confident that a Rails gem is the eventual goal.

fidelopervor 13 Jahren

I think it's worth noting that Bootstrap and Foundation may not be comparing apples to apples.

Bootstrap has more styles so you can...bootstrap. Foundation is meant to be a foundation to build on.

That being said, of course their functionality is very close, but be aware of the core differences in outlook between the 2.

vcherubinivor 13 Jahren

Foundation is without a doubt the nicest CSS framework I have ever used. It really, really helps me, as a programmer, create amazing interfaces without much effort at all. Combined with SASS and it's a winning combination.

Can't wait to start playing with version 5.

rhizomevor 13 Jahren

What would you say the tradeoffs are for that ease of implementation?

antiherovor 13 Jahren

One thing that seems utterly absurd is that now you need to have two ecosystems to build one project - both node and and ruby. Seeing as it is uses libsass to build now, why not ditch the ruby cli and port it to node?

kclayvor 13 Jahren

The Interchange plugin saved my butt on a recent project. Client wanted to have 5 different images for different sizes, it was a breeze to setup even when having to integrate it with the supersized slider.

silviogutierrezvor 13 Jahren

Is Foundation better than Bootstrap? I'm genuinely curious, as they seem functionality equivalent.

Of course, one uses SASS and one uses LESS. I knew LESS, so I picked Bootstrap.

But I'm more than willing to switch.

feinvor 13 Jahren

The only thing you get with bootstrap at this point is an insane amount of plugins (datepickers, etc). In general, you just have to pick the vanilla jquery plugins and theme them up to use foundation's syntax. I just recently did this with xeditable and poshytip.

I'll take the semantics of foundation any day. Love this framework.

thatthatisvor 13 Jahren

You could also argue than a plugin that ships with hard-wired skin for only one CSS framework is a signal of bad underlying engineering, i.e. no separation of concerns

feinvor 13 Jahren

I fully agree with this. It's one of the things I love about datatables.js. The library comes with the ability to edit the sdom and templating for just about everything that library produces. The only funky shit is getting foundation to properly apply it's js to ajaxed content.

Raphmediavor 13 Jahren

Where I work, we use LESS. We actually use Foundation (with it's SASS) and put LESS over it and forget Bootstrap.

It's that good.

steveaxvor 13 Jahren

Genuinely curious, why that much effort to use LESS over Sass?

ds_vor 13 Jahren

Can anyone tell me how to make a split button / dropdown that goes upwards (dropup)? This is one thing bootstrap has which I've been missing in foundation.

jaredmcateervor 13 Jahren

This seems a good place to start:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18648307/make-zurb-founda...

https://github.com/jlong/sass-bootstrap/blob/master/lib/_dro...

ds_vor 13 Jahren

Thanks, I was hoping I wouldn't have to make changes to the js which makes upgrading a headache. I'm probably better off writing my own angular directive.

Jgrubbvor 13 Jahren

On the one hand it's never been a better time to be a front end dev, and on the other it's absolutely crazy how fast front end technology is progressing the last couple years. I just caught on to Foundation 4 in the last 4 months or so, and now here's a new release that's way more evolved. Amazing.

Thanks to the Zurb team! I'll definitely be ripping off lots of ideas for my company's tortoise-speed Drupal sites.

dodygvor 13 Jahren

Faster iteration isn't necessarily better actually especially if people don't care forward compatibility. Maybe it's just different culture.

For example bootstrap 3 is a breaking upgrade and suddenly your just finished bootstrap 2 is using 'unsupported' framework.

amirmcvor 13 Jahren

It may have been breaking but they did well to state that it would be breaking and was in development long enough (with RCs) that no-one should be caught by surprise.

I say this as someone who launched a site based on 2.3 as 3.0 entered RC status.

wmeredithvor 13 Jahren

But doesn't "supported" mean iteration? If you don't want to use them why do you care if your framework is "supported" or not?

hackula1vor 13 Jahren

I launched an app the week before BS 3.0 launched and had to spend several days upgrading.

sergiotapiavor 13 Jahren

I've tried to use Foundation before and it's responsive grid was ghastly. This was the first time I tried anything responsive mind you. So I jumped towards Bootstrap 3 and it's grid was phenomal to use.

Predictable, simple and quick to iterate - everything I wanted.

I'm going to give this release a try. The interchangable items based on device widths looks fantastic! I'm really excited to give Zurb a try. :)

arkitaipvor 13 Jahren

I've had the same experience. Debugging Foundation's responsive grid turned out to be a nightmare. Just migrated the project to the latest Bootstrap and it's much more intuitive to work with. Also, Foundation has more styling of form elements which gets really annoying really fast.

babyvor 13 Jahren

Really? I'm using Bootstrap because it's prettier, but I've always found the Foundation grid system way better.

mixmastamykvor 13 Jahren

What's the recommended way to use this with a python dev environment?

I'd rather not have to install ruby too just to rebuild the css. When one of these is announced I usually find myself navigating the various poorly-maintained python modules that process the source files, get lost, give up, and go back to plain css.

Perhaps I could just add a bit of css to a static build instead? Are there any shortcomings to that?

jon-woodvor 13 Jahren

One of the features Foundation 5 is advertising is support for libsass, which is the C implementation by the original author of Sass, so you should be good without having to install Ruby.

minimaxirvor 13 Jahren

When I was choosing a framework for a redesign for my blog (switching from Bootstrap since it was getting cumbersome), I decided to try out UIkit, since I ended up not needing any of the JavaScript plugins or super-fancy CSS effects.

However, after taking a look at Foundation 5's plugins, I will definitely try using the framework if I need to undertake a website with more ambitious functionality.

afriend4lyfevor 13 Jahren

I'm new to web design and have been experimenting with a few other development environments. Reading through these comments I became excited to learn more about foundation. I went to their site and looked at their site examples. Many of them were broken and didn't seem to work as intended, nor were they very beautiful to the uninitiated. This was on a desktop using chrome. I didn't bother to check with my mobile.

My main platform so far has been extremely buggy too and is not even primarily made to create websites. I've been using Google Web Designer. Take my advice with a grain of salt as I represent hobbyist developers who thought "hey, i'd like to build a site. what tool should I start with?" I would not invest $200 to enroll in your intro course for something that gave me an initial first impression of being flimsy. However, it is equally likely that I am unable to realize the full potential of your product with my limited understanding of web development at first glance.

I'm excited about seeing how Macaw works and am going to begin a new project with Bootstrap soon. While my main focus has been purely static web design I plan to incorporate dynamic applications within my approach very soon.

actionscriptedvor 13 Jahren

When you get into those dynamic applications I think you'll find the likes of Foundation much more appealing. This is not a WYSIWYG-style tool, this is for developers building sites by hand and the example styles aren't often used in production.

hanifviranivor 13 Jahren

I would just like to say that I love Foundation! Kudos to the team and congrats on the new release. I look forward to exploring the new version. That being said, I am not really digging the new documentation page. The sample code containers should have a non-white background or at least some kind of a border.

lowboyvor 13 Jahren

They do for me - maybe your device has the contrast set too low?

smileyj68vor 13 Jahren

Hmm, they should, have a light grey background. Maybe too light?

hanifviranivor 13 Jahren

I could see it after fiddling with my contrast setting. I am not sure how bad it is for other people.

smileyj68vor 13 Jahren

We'll see if we can amp it up a bit.

xwowsersxvor 13 Jahren

I don't know why (maybe I'm just not good with css and html in general), but I'm always confused when looking at these grid systems. Trying to use zurb in a project now and I'm kinda lost. Any good resources other than their docs for sort of showing how to use zurb in a full project?

lowboyvor 13 Jahren

Are you talking about Zurb's grid system[0] specifically, or referring to Zurb/Bootstrap as "grid systems"?

If it's the latter, a simple Google search for "how to use Bootstrap" turns up a lot of resources, including this one[1], which looks good. You might be able to find Foundation-specific ones, but Bootstrap seems to have the edge in popularity.

[0]: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/grid.html [1]: http://www.onextrapixel.com/2012/11/12/how-to-use-twitter-bo...

bluejaythemesvor 13 Jahren

Webdesigntuts+ has a thorough series covering Foundation 4 you might be interested in. If your a Lynda subscriber, they’ve got a couple of courses on Foundation 4, as well. There’s not a whole lot of difference between the grid in Foundation 4 and Foundation 5. Foundation 5 does add a new medium breakpoint which is great for tablets.

http://www.webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/htmlcss-tutorial...

http://www.lynda.com/Foundation-training-tutorials/1628-0.ht...

xwowsersxvor 13 Jahren

Man, the quality of the videos on Lynda.com always impresses me. But I don't wanna pay $25 when that's the only series I want. Wish I could just do a la carte.

xwowsersxvor 13 Jahren

Thank you for this. I will definitely check out the tutsplus tutorial!

feinvor 13 Jahren

Where are you hung up? It might just be something simple that I, or anyone else around here can answer quickly. Everything I learned was from trial and error through messing with F4's grid system.

mtarnovanvor 13 Jahren

Congrats ! Looks like a big release.

Some pain points from using Foundation (4) in our latest project: * topbar sucks * custom forms are horrible (they seem to have been removed from 5, or maybe justs the docs are missing)

Also, using under_score instead of camelCase in javascript is a questionable choice with no real benefits.

qhocvor 13 Jahren

I switched from Foundation 4 to Flatstrap (a version of Bootstrap) instead because I like the flat UI. v4 had many problems with JS and especially topbar was never good enough. I ended up creating my own topbar which is not ideal. Also the lack of fixed cols is a big issue for desktop design.

applecorevor 13 Jahren

How does this compare to Bootstrap 3?

nejvor 13 Jahren

Is clicking on Learn suppose to drop the page like this http://imgur.com/yH9OKB3? Happens on both Chrome and Firefox.

smileyj68vor 13 Jahren

Definitely not supposed to, we're pushing a fix for that. Bit of a rush on the marketing site for launch...

jeffpersonifiedvor 13 Jahren

How is their inclusion of a medium break point not at the top of this thread? This is the most significant and noticeable addition to the Framework IMO.

nettleteavor 13 Jahren

Chrome zoomed in at 125% is enough to break the layout on the getting started page, which is a little worrying.

ChristianBundyvor 13 Jahren

Screenshot? I'm not seeing what you're seeing.

nettleteavor 13 Jahren

Someone appears to have fixed this. The main content was showing below the left sidebar. ( I have Chrome's default font as Android Sans, that might have had something to do with it).

caiobvor 13 Jahren

When will this be available on Rails?

ds_vor 13 Jahren

It already is: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/applications.html

To the foundation team, "makes us to do so much quicker" should probably be "enables us to do so much quicker".

tszmingvor 13 Jahren

The sliding panel's animation is sluggish on Firefox Mobile/Samsung S4

nathanwdavisvor 13 Jahren

The linked web page crashes Safari on iOS 7. Mobile first, eh?

smileyj68vor 13 Jahren

We tested pretty extensively, it looks okay...what device?

sudontvor 13 Jahren

Tested and duplicated on an iPad air here. It's Safari's issue, though.

There's a bug in mobile Safari that I can replicate on other sites. Scrolling on Craigslist's map view when the page is loading also crashes the browser, which leads me to believe it's something related to attaching to events in certain states.

renehersevor 13 Jahren

First, a big thanks to all the Zurb folks who work on Foundation, I can't wait to dig into the new release!

Just for the sake of another data point (albeit an obscure one): The page crashed Chrome on my iPhone 4 running iOS 7.03, both with other pages open and as the only page.

nathanwdavisvor 13 Jahren

This is on 7.0.2 on an iPhone 4s. Crashes Safari reliably 4 times in a row. Maybe it's just my bad luck.

Anyway, looking at it on my laptop now. It looks great!

feinvor 13 Jahren

Chrome on 4.4 didn't have a single problem, and the site looks wonderful.

michaelbuddyvor 13 Jahren

already foundation 5. I've only just had two dates with foundation 4. Between foundation and Jeet, I'm so stoked to have these to work and collaborate on.

princevermavor 13 Jahren

Is there a good alternative to Abide for Bootstrap ?

dabernathy89vor 13 Jahren

seems kind of odd to integrate their own CLI instead of just writing a yo generator - and where is the documentation for it?

SkyMarshalvor 13 Jahren

As with prior versions of Foundation, Yeoman will get plenty of generators for it. At least ZURB's CLI guarantees an easy way to get the canonical version, which is not always apparent among the various Yeoman generators. Also ZURB seems more Ruby-oriented than JS-oriented, as most of their installation methods are based on the Ruby ecosystem.

Docs are here: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/.

travelorgvor 13 Jahren

Is Foundation a "Standard" now?

locengvor 13 Jahren

As much as Bootstrap, I imagine. Not sure if moreso or lessso though. Perhaps different use cases? It looks like developers prefer Bootstrap, not entirely sure why - perhaps something as simple as the documentation is structured better for them - or that was the initial crowd who was exposed to it.

dubcanadavor 13 Jahren

Bootstrap has a lot more "extras (javascript stuff)" that make it easier to make an entire product using it.

That's pretty much it.

travelorgvor 13 Jahren

It's just that I'm the guy that liked dojo when the world liked jquery. Should I just go with the majority and choose bootstrap?

camus2vor 13 Jahren

I think jQuery and Bootstrap are "developer ready". IE , easy to use. The easiest lib/project to use will always be the most successfull one. Doesnt mean there is no place for competition, and it doesnt mean it will always be the framework everybody use. Furthermore this is "Twitter" bootstrap. Most people have no idea what Zurb is.

SkyMarshalvor 13 Jahren

Foundation's enough of a standard that you don't have to worry about that. It'll be around indefinitely and won't get abandoned like some hobbyist project or superseded by Bootstrap.

travelorgvor 13 Jahren

My aim is to reduce downloads to mobile users but allow tabs and laptop/desktop users with bandwidth to get the full show.

buckbovavor 13 Jahren

There's a lot more web application stuff built into bootstrap for forms and multistate buttons and what not.

adamb_vor 13 Jahren

Bootstrap is attached to a big-name company.

elm232vor 13 Jahren

They're not though. The author worked for Twitter when he released the first version of Bootstrap, but Twitter never actually used it in production. Twitter doesn't promote it anymore either; BS3 got moved to twbs/bootstrap on GitHub, and the new marketing site doesn't call it Twitter Bootstrap anymore.

ZURB doesn't have a huge consumer product, but they're a pretty big name in design, and they have half a dozen people who regularly work on Foundation/Foundation support.

adamb_vor 13 Jahren

I agree that I should have written it past-tense... But, until recently, it was clear that Twitter's name was attached to the project. A Google search for "Twitter Bootstrap" pulls up all the relevant docs, and the first line of the 2.3.2 docs is "Built at Twitter by @mdo and @fat"

thomasflvor 13 Jahren

I am switching to today.

chetzitvor 13 Jahren

andylvor 13 Jahren

I use Bootstrap, but it looks to me like Foundation5 is a better framework and is making faster progress. Especially I like Foundations use of SASS.

Problem is - some widgets I depend on - like date-pickers and X-Editable - only support Bootstrap.

scotthvor 13 Jahren

Bootstrap is written in LESS [1], and has a SASS port [2].

[1] http://getbootstrap.com/customize/#less [2] https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass

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Segmentationvor 13 Jahren

My only problem with Zurb is that ridiculous mascot that represents it. What is that sky-blue creature? Hipster yeti?

smileyj68vor 13 Jahren

You don't like our Yeti? Aww. I won't tell him.

camus2vor 13 Jahren

Agreed, this is silly but it's like Ember's hamster,it's a hit or miss. While the design is great, you might or might not dig the mascot.