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Is it me, or is every CSS framework nowadays advertised as being either 'light,' 'responsive,' or 'modern?'

http://danmalarkey.github.io/schema/ http://responsivebp.com/ http://getbase.org/ http://getskeleton.com/ https://www.myresponsee.com/ http://html5-ninja.com/icecream/ http://www.fitgrd.com/ http://lightuikit.in/ http://bulma.io/

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Just like every new shiny tool that pops up - everything is 'robust', 'scalable', easy 'to reason about'. What a time to be alive.

We are still in Wild West of shiny open-source frameworks, libraries and tools. As time goes by, a niche markets and more sophisticated marketing strategies evolve. "Clojure library for 18-35 whites living in suburbs" would become a common then.

I think "responsive" is a useful modifier (even though most CSS frameworks nowadays are responsive).

"Light" is definitely relative but at least they list the exact size pretty early on.

"Modern", however, is something everybody seems to use to describe their programming framework/library and it's useless. Think about it this way: if you removed the word "modern", what information have you lost?

I would say "Modern" means that it's needs a recent Browser to work correct. Users with Browsers older than 2 years are probably not supported.

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