+1 Foundation or Skeleton for mobile friendliness.

Seems much easier than adapting a custom grid.

I found one here a while ago if anyone is interested.  Licensed under
GPL and MIT.

http://www.spry-soft.com/grids/

On Oct 18, 2:01 pm, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> There are plans to update the 'welcome' scaffolding app, and we are
> considering various front-end frameworks to serve as a base. Here are some
> options being considered:
>
>    - HTML5 Boilerplate (http://html5boilerplate.com)
>    - Twitter Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap)
>    - Skeleton (http://www.getskeleton.com)
>    - Foundation (http://foundation.zurb.com)
>
> Note, the latter two (Skeleton and Foundation) offer mobile-friendly
> responsive/adaptive layouts (i.e., use of CSS media queries to automatically
> alter the layout on smaller devices). (When you view those two sites, try
> making your browser window smaller, or view on a smartphone, and see how it
> changes -- won't work in IE<9.)
>
> There's also the possibility of combining these in some way (e.g., Bootstrap
> styles/UI with Skeleton responsive grid).
>
> The question is, are we missing any good options that should be considered,
> particularly mobile-friendly responsive frameworks? Are there other issues
> we should be thinking about?
>
> Note, the goal is to have a single, fairly compact 'welcome' app. In
> addition to that, we may offer some alternative scaffolds/layouts via a
> wizard or some kind of repo (perhaps some of those above that aren't
> selected for the 'welcome' app), so the main 'welcome' app doesn't have to
> be all things to all people -- just a nice, basic, general purpose starting
> point (hopefully that's mobile-friendly).
>
> Suggestions/comments welcome.
>
> Anthony

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