What is a Twitter Bootstrap UI?

Question

I recently came across this term and I was wondering if there is anyone that could enlighten this concept and how it could fit into application development?

Answer 1

Twitter Bootstrap

You're probably reffering to Twitter Bootstrap. Not to be confused with normal bootstrap, which is something else.

Twitter bootstrap is a small (frontend) css/js "framework" with which you can build fluid web pages. So this is meant for web design only.

This means that when you resize your browser, all elements will be resized aswell, so that it even displays everything nicely on a mobile device.

For examples and more information check out their github page: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

What is bootstrapping? (bootstrap)

Bootstrap (or bootstrapping) is something different. A bootstrap is a piece of code that is run when the machine (or application) first starts. A bootstrap file contains all sorts of standard configurations to configure itself.

There's actually more detail behind the whole bootstrap story, so for more information please read the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap