Why is Twitter’s Bootstrap better than the responsive, adaptive themes available for blogs and frameworks?

Question

I’m using Drupal (please note that this is not a Drupal related question), and I can get many responsive, adaptive themes from their repositories. Many of them use HTML5 and/or CSS3. I can imagine that the same happens in Wordpress, and other products.

I would like to know why I should try to learn how to use Bootstrap. I mean, why is it better? (Is it better?) Is it because it uses LESS?

I’ve read what’s in their site, and it seems that they put a lot of interesing stuff all in one place, but I fail to see why this seems to get that much attention.

As I’m looking to change my site’s design, I thought of adapting Bootstrap into my Drupal site, but I want to be sure that’s the right thing to do in terms of SEO, loading time of the site, mobile web, etc.

Thanks for your insight!!

Answer 1

I am not from drupal background. But I can tell you twitter bootstrap saves my time to use various UI components, when compared with jquery UI and other jquery UI components.

When I chose jquery as my javascript platform I loved it. Along with jquery UI I thought my life would be simple. But when I started using jquery UI, I started using 960gs, superfish menu etc. etc for various UI needs. After few months, I realized I spent more time for these things than I expected.

Just last month I started using twitter-bootstrap for my next project, now I am really glad I chose this. It saves time and of course 'less' makes it easy to handle css.

Now I am going to try it with phonegap/jquery mobile to see how it works.