With our new Bootstrap guidelines, we're trying to encourage activity in the upper-left, lower-left and lower right quadrants, and limit certain use cases that occupy the upper-right quadrant.
Nearly eighteen months ago, we gave developers guidance that they should not build form elements that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter Bootstrap experience. And to reiterate, that guidance continues to apply today.
Parent is referencing the Twitter blog post about changes in Version 1.1 of the API which stirred some controversy because of the new rules and limitations for 3rd party developers. See the link below:
It's a joke? I totally missed that! My perception for these things is rather obtuse, so thanks for pointing it out. I thought that perhaps the Twitter devs themselves had jumped the shark.
Nearly eighteen months ago, we gave developers guidance that they should not build form elements that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter Bootstrap experience. And to reiterate, that guidance continues to apply today.