Zurb launches Foundation 5

 
Zurb launches Foundation 5

Zurb launches Foundation 5 for front-end devs with 3 key features: fast, faster, and fastest

High-end site builder Zurb is launching the fifth iteration of its popular Foundation framework for front-end web developers today. Foundation 5 is faster to learn, faster to code, and faster to run, ”chief instigator” Bryan Zmijewski told VentureBeat.

Apparently, what he means is: It’s fast.

“Foundation 5 is our fastest release to date — faster in all aspects of building products and websites,” Zmijewski, founder of Zurb, said via email. “Foundation is built for professionals.”

Foundation is a framework for building web and mobile front-ends — the HTML and CSS and Javascript that tell browsers what to do with the data that websites and apps are sending them. Millions of developers are already using it, and Zmijewski isn’t shy about calling it “the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world.”

One of the key features is that Foundation makes it easy to build responsive websites — sites that adapt to whatever device a visitor is using, whether a smartphone, tablet, or full PC. Just one of the top 20 sites in the world, WordPress.com, is fully responsive, Zmijewski says, and that’s because writing responsive sites is “still ill-understood, slow to learn, cumbersome to write, and challenging to test.”

But not with Foundation, especially the new version.

The new Foundation 5 is faster for users, with a technology called interchange that allows you to specify entirely difference sections of the site for different devices or classes of devices. In addition, with new hardware acceleration support, the framework now offers smoother animations and transitions.

The Foundation development group has also integrated fastclick.js to mobile users will get better performance, and has built Off Canvas into the core navigation options, providing an easy way to build navigation.

Reference : http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/21/zurb-launches-foundation-5-for-front-end-devs-with-3-key-features-fast-faster-and-fastest/

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