I’ve worked on “Mobile First” websites before, and we are now using Twitter Bootstrap for our sites. The problem is Twitter Bootstrap is not “mobile first”, but rather “Responsive”.
By “Mobile first” I mean the very basic stylesheet for mobile phones loads first, so there is no requirement that the phone supports @media queries.
Twitter Bootstrap loads the whole desktop stylesheet, using @media queries to resize down to mobile.
Is there any reason Twitter went with this method? Surely it’s not as compatible, and older devices will not work?
Are there any “mobile first” mods for Twitter Bootstrap I could use or do I have to create my own?
Bootstrap 3 is mobile first! Yay!
V3 is now released, as seen at http://getbootstrap.com/