Really great comparison chart. One thing that I, personally, would like to see is the relative sizes of each of the libraries (or at least their core, minified includes). While it certainly wouldn't control my decision of which framework to use, it would certainly be interesting to see which frameworks achieve what functionality with x amount of code.
Also helpful would be a brief list of functionality so you can make a comparison more fairly. Bootstrap's minified 122kB css weight (with responsive) is huge compared to that of Skeleton's 12kB, but the former has more features. Or Toast, with it's 3.7kB min size but even fewer features than Skeleton.
I hate to be that guy, but the chart would be a lot more useful if the colors were used to communicate something rather than just being pretty. Ideally items that were better (e.g. were compatible with older versions of a browser) would have more visual weight than those that were worse. The less/sass and tablet/desktop sections do it better, but the browser section is pretty useless.
I think he means that the browser compatibility column should take advantage of color as well. Maybe more attractive/brighter colors could be representative of frameworks that are compatible with older browsers.
Exactly. Browser compatibility is an important factor and is definitely useful; it would just be nice if a quick glance could tell me whether a particular framework was "more" or "less" compatible.
Great list. What criteria are you using to sort this list?
I think it would be helpful to show the date of last development activity for each framework, be it a most recent github commit or release date of latest version. Some of the frameworks haven't been updated in over 3 years and it would be nice to distinguish these quickly.
I used 960gs for the first time last night, to build the template for http://daeken.com/ (had to finally switch from Posterous). It was amazingly simple, even for someone completely CSS brain-dead. Really can't say enough good things about it.
neat. not digging the contrast in the browser section though. also, is there really a need to show the huge barely visible browser icon next to each figure? just use browser icons (in their native colors) as column headers.
Am I the only one looking at the 34 items in the list (34!!) and thinking "do we really need all of these?" Isn't the sheer volume of new stuff constantly coming out gone a bit out of hand?
