Re:Awesome BlueprintCSS framework hits 0.7
by mattmaroon on Thursday February 21, 2008 @04:48PM
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It's pretty great for that. It allows you to do complex layouts a little faster while keeping them readable. I'll be using it for any future sites I design.
Re:Awesome BlueprintCSS framework hits 0.7
by DocSavage on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @03:42PM
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How anyone here compared BlueprintCSS to YUI CSS foundation?
In an interview linked from the wiki, the creator said:
"The first CSS framework I checked out was the Yahoo User Interface Library, but found it to be way too bloated for what I want from a designers framework."
Re:Awesome BlueprintCSS framework hits 0.7
by wavesplash on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @04:47PM
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YUI css is designed to do a few layouts well and make other layouts possible. Its not bad, but it is clunky to work with and a pain if you don't fit one of its proportional models precisely.
Blueprint is more logical and conceptually easier to understand - everything is put on a flexible grid and you choose how many grid units you want to use for each layout block.
I dig the rest of the YUI toolkit, but compared to blueprint, YUI CSS feels like a hack.
Re:Awesome BlueprintCSS framework hits 0.7
by andr on Thursday February 21, 2008 @09:47AM
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isn't the idea of CSS to separate design from semantic content? putting <div snap="span-10"> (spans 10 grid columns) in your HTML entirely defeats the purpose.
Re:Awesome BlueprintCSS framework hits 0.7
by andr on Thursday February 21, 2008 @12:30PM
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what about print css, phones, etc, etc.? what about using html as a data feed (e.g., for your JS, microformats, etc.)? BluePrint is clearly written by and for designers, rather than IAs.
Knowing that you can change a layout in that many ways just using CSS...its quite humbling.
Looking at what a lot of those zengarden designs do behind the scenes shows you just how ugly css can be.
In an interview linked from the wiki, the creator said: "The first CSS framework I checked out was the Yahoo User Interface Library, but found it to be way too bloated for what I want from a designers framework."
Here's an interesting response: http://foohack.com/2007/08/blueprint-css-framework-vs-yui-gr...
Blueprint is more logical and conceptually easier to understand - everything is put on a flexible grid and you choose how many grid units you want to use for each layout block.
I dig the rest of the YUI toolkit, but compared to blueprint, YUI CSS feels like a hack.
As for the YUI CSS libraries, well, my eyes crossed a little when I looked at the markup. I only checked YUI CSS out briefly, though.
http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2007/aug/09/myth-content-and-prese...
Not on my screen, unfortunately. (Firefox 2, Ubuntu, 1280x1024)