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Awesome BlueprintCSS framework hits 0.7
- DocSavage 19y agoHow 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." Here's an interesting response: http://foohack.com/2007/08/blueprint-css-framework-vs-yui-grids/ http://foohack.com/2007/08/blueprint-css-framework-vs-yui-gr...
- wavesplash 19y agoYUI 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.
- pius 19y agoBlueprint was a snap for me to pick up and the markup looks good (concerns about mixing style and semantics notwithstanding). 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.
- pius 19y agoChangelog: http://blueprintcss.googlecode.com/svn/blueprint/trunk/CHANGELOG http://blueprintcss.googlecode.com/svn/blueprint/trunk/CHANG...
- simianstyle 19y agoI love frameworks, but using one for CSS seems a bit too much for me. I like the idea of having only code that is needed for my site design.
- immad 19y agoI just can't get into css. I would much prefer to use this framework than have to think about it... But maybe thats just me
- kajecounterhack 19y agoThe only reason I got into it was http://www.csszengarden.com http://www.csszengarden.com Knowing that you can change a layout in that many ways just using CSS...its quite humbling.
- tim2 19y agoI've found programmable templating frameworks to be more powerful and maintainable than 100% css. Looking at what a lot of those zengarden designs do behind the scenes shows you just how ugly css can be.
- mattmaroon 19y agoIt'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.
- jsg 19y agohmm...samples don't look quite right in safari (left margin disappears)
- musiciangames 19y agohttp://files.bjorkoy.com/blueprint/tests/sample.html http://files.bjorkoy.com/blueprint/tests/sample.html "This box is aligned with the sidebar" Not on my screen, unfortunately. (Firefox 2, Ubuntu, 1280x1024)
- andr 19y agoisn'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.
- utnick 19y agoi just read a blog post taking the other side of this argument: http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2007/aug/09/myth-content-and-presentation-separation/ http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2007/aug/09/myth-content-and-prese...
- andr 19y agowhat 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.