Perhaps I am just confused, as is always possible this early in the morning but it seems to me that you have it exactly backwards. If you use bootstrap responsive, span9 will span 9 columns regardless of the device, and giving the div a class of purchase or search would conflate the content with the appearance. The whole purpose of Bootstrap is handle the presentation. It doesn't, and shouldn't, care what data is being presented.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:04 AM, zaphod <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's for the same reason we quit using tables for layout. It was conflating > the content with presentation. When you specify a class of "span9", you're > not using semantic classes, you're specifying the layout. This falls over > when you take that same layout to a mobile device when the span9 really isn't > a span9 anymore. It's also an issue for screen readers. It's also the same > reason why you don't use a class like <button class="red-button"> because > your design my change and red-button in your css may know be color #aaa > instead. <button class="purchase"> or <button class="search"> would be more > semantic. > > using <div class="row"><div class="span2"></div><div > class="span3></div></div> is not that far removed from <table><tr > colspan=2"><td></td><td></td></tr></table> and really pushing web design back > a few years. > > I'm a big fan of Bootstrap and will use the spanX tags when prototyping, but > I will change them before I push to production. > > > On Jun 13, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I would be more inclined to use the id of the div to identify content >> than the class. If you are going to change the content, you would need >> the id. Changing a CSS class on a div would change the presentation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364534 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
