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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.



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.


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


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.


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


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.




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