Bootstrap, a sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
Quote : http://getbootstrap.com
But, recently I have heard some negatives about Bootstrap framework from few of my UI expert friends. I tried to list the drawback points below.
- Adds more than necessary (bulky) HTML and CSS to a web page
- Hard to structure/design web pages as necessary
- Contains some accessibility issues - Ex: color contrast issues, non-sementic markup, etc
- Released versions are not backward compatible
- W3C HTML and CSS validation issues
Alternative/Options :
- Customize the bootstrap framework to fix these issues
- Foundation 5 framework - http://foundation.zurb.com
- Note: I have not used this. One of my UI expert friend highly recommend this framework
Some good links regarding this issues :
http://www.wearecube.ch/limitations-of-twitter-bootstrap/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14227000/pros-cons-of-switching-to-twitter-bootstrap
https://github.com/dobtco/bootstrap-accessible/issues