BOOTSTRA.386

Bootstrap/386 is a Twitter bootstrap v2/3/4/5 theme to make webpages look like they are from the gentler, less distracting time of the 1980s.

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Download for your favorite bootstrap version with all the necessary JS and CSS to get started right away:

• BOOTSTRA/386 ][ (2013) demo 144KB
• BOOTSTRA/386 iii (2015) - demo - current build (230KB)
• BOOTSTRA/386 4 (2020) - demo remaining issues - current build
• ブートストラップ/386 5.0 (2023) - demo source - current build

https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386/assets/231761/9d8f7c51-0ba7-4a45-996d-d9a36e00a6a3

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      The Definitive All-in-one Graphical Tool-Kit for Micros and Terminals.  
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  There's a lot of micros and a lot of        this future has arrived.
  graphics modes. Today there's CGA,          
  Hercules, MDA, and EGA. And that's only     Use primitives like buttons, "toolbars"
  on the IBM-PC.                              and various "widgets" that will control
                                              your application. We handle rendering
  What about Tandy, CDC, Honeywell,           these abstractions on screen for you.
  DEC, and Zenith? That's a different          
  problem. How about the portables on         Think of your software in terms of
  tomorrows' horizon? Plan to ignore the      Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pull-Downs.
  Compaq-1? Your customers won't.             Even a WIMP can do it (TM).
                                              
  Such incompatibilities shouldn't be         That's the new paradigm of full-screen
  your concern. You focus on making           interactive applications. Give your
  great microcomputer applications. We        customers the rich interface that are
  focus on making your application work       easy to use and also, easy to create.
  on tomorrow's computer.                     Give yourself that one-leg up on your
                                              competition. GUI is Good. GUI is God.
  It's called a "Graphical User Interface"    
  They've been in development for years       Just look at how beautiful
  at places like XEROX Parc in Palo Alto      your application can look with
  and Carnegie Mellon. And now, finally       BOOTSTRAP/386:

Configuration

Javascript settings are set via a global _386 object.

Animation

The loading animation can be configured through the following values:

• fastLoad [bool] (default: false) - disable all animation.
• onePass [bool] (default: false) - when set, this will disable the second flyby cursor
• speedFactor [float] (default: 1.0) - This controls how fast the animation happens. Higher values mean faster animation.

Example:

_386 = { onePass: true, speedFactor: 1.25 };

Note: For the progressive animation to work you may need to set this stanza in your regular CSS: body { visibility: hidden }.

Accomodating users without javascript

During a 2018 April fools’ prank, a user pointed out that this theme doesn’t work without javascript. This is a valid concern, however it cannot be addressed without a user manually doing something since this is just a bootstrap theme.

Luckily, HTML5 permits noscript in the head section which means that style can be put in the noscript section. This means that putting this in the header would permit people without JS on to see the site:

<noscript>
  <style>
    body { 
       visibility: visible; 
    }
  </style>
</noscript>

Bugs and Stuff

Check out the contribution doc - it’s easy, I swear.

Building yourself

These folders, and all versions, are proper forks of tagged releases of bootstrap. Because they represent very specific snapshots in time, there’s no configuration json, buildbot updates or anything like that. If you want to patch updates to the dependencies and confirm the build of the old versions then please open a PR … I ignore the automated ones that github sends me because it’s not that kind of project.

For building, I have included README.md in each of the directories. Unlike the lazy chumps over at bootstrap industries, I actually support 4 versions, simultaneously. Now I do so very poorly, and with a proposterous time lag, but I supposedly do.

Contact

• Mailing list

Also you can give me money, as little as $1/month … Click on that heart sponsor thing at the top … I’m a sponsorer as well!

See the wiki for more documentation.

Attributions

The font for v4/5 is by VileR, used under Creative Commons Share-Alike, which can be found at int10h.org.