Sensible CSS Framework
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- TheBlueOne
Not the biggest fan of the frameworkthing, but this seems pretty good. Worth a look and a bookmark:
- ismith0
Sorry to barge in on your thread and all, but...
http://code.google.com/p/css-boi…
Basically the same thing, eh?
- I've used Boilerplate, not SenCSS, so I'm only comparing them by their description and a quick glance at their source files.ismith
- rounce0
Someone care to explain to me the point of a CSS framework?
- really?doesnotexist
- i'm with rounce...sounds stupid.sublocked
- Framework is a stupid name for these things imoismith
- true, it is.doesnotexist
- airey0
(for above)
many of these 'frameworks' are made to make all browsers start from the same point. they basically strip out the pre-existing styles inherited by the browser and start them all from scratch.
meaning that padding, type sizes, font choices, margins, everything is set to the same value. this lets you design much more easily for cross-browser, cross-platform than you usually can.
for example an older version of IE used to automatically add 10px margin at the top of the page, also some browsers underline links, some don't, some images have a border when linked some don't, etc etc. it can also fight people's preferred browser setup and present the site in the way you intended.
this doesn't effect everyone but some css designers – especially cutting edge ones – have to spend a lot of time bouncing between browsers / platforms fixing crappy little bugs.
- TheBlueOne0
Yeah...but some frameworks actually have some sort of layout scheme, which I detest. The one I linkedto above doesn't seemtohave any layout dependencies, has a good initial reset parameter and addresses some things like vertical rhythm. Kinda neat,
- don't use the one you don't like then. i'm a problem solver me.airey
- Point50
things like this really drive me batty. I just read about that Blueprint CSS and my head almost exploded. I feel like I have a decent grasp on css, but now after reading about this shit I feel like I know nothing.
- +1omgitsacamera
- yep. it's less than fun really.airey
- Blueprint is shit. I will never add classes like "span-8", it's no different than tables at that point.yaphi
- urban100
i've used blueprint css a lot recently and it's amazing. makes variable column layouts much easier to handle without having to create so many unique selectors which will just bloat your css files.