tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11788780.post5709722016476668590..comments2023-12-29T13:22:33.104-08:00Comments on JJinuxLand: Web: 960 Grid Systemjjinuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270879497119114175noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11788780.post-32525334987002064082009-09-30T00:17:57.092-07:002009-09-30T00:17:57.092-07:00It's interesting to note that Blueprint uses 2...It's interesting to note that Blueprint uses 23 columns, and 960 System Grid has a nicer looking web page ;) Aside from those two things, I think I like Blueprint more because it provides a bit more. Of course, what the heck do I know?jjinuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270879497119114175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11788780.post-90930794963281269462009-09-30T00:12:16.351-07:002009-09-30T00:12:16.351-07:00960 Grid System appears to focus entirely on provi...960 Grid System appears to focus entirely on providing a grid system. It's interesting to note what the tutorial says at the end:<br /><br />"Now that the prototype is finished,to take stock what has been done. You've manage to quickly prototype a design. Grid 960 easily created the grid for us. Where do to go from here? Naturally we would show the client and see what they think. There are a few caveats though. Have you tested this design in IE6 or IE7? No. Should we? No. This is a prototype. This is what it would look like in production. It is natural that any browser quirks would be worked out before production. What if the clients wants to create a more complex design? In this case, you will quickly start to see the limits of the framework. What if the design needs to be liquid or elastic? The framework will no do that. You would need to start from scratch. Remember that CSS Frameworks do not solve all your problems, but they do help with some. Grid 960 as well as others are great for throwing together prototypes. You can just as well use the concepts of Grid 960 in the production code, but it is not recommend sticking with a framework all the way through production. CSS frameworks are just like any tool, they have their uses. With that in mind, go forth and prototype!"jjinuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270879497119114175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11788780.post-11214673510379287232009-09-30T00:03:41.568-07:002009-09-30T00:03:41.568-07:00Blueprint provides:
* A CSS reset that elimi...Blueprint provides:<br /><br /> * A CSS reset that eliminates the discrepancies across browsers.<br /> * A solid grid that can support the most complex of layouts.<br /> * Typography based on expert principles that predate the web.<br /> * Form styles for great looking user interfaces.<br /> * Print styles for making any webpage ready for paper.<br /> * Plugins for buttons, tabs and sprites.<br /> * Tools, editors, and templates for every step in your workflow.<br /><br />The web page looks nice, and it looks like they're working on a real community.<br /><br />I'm not sure I buy the idea that HTML should be 100% semantic and contain no layout. I think that's a laudable goal. However, we still have br tags. We still have div vs. span tags. The order of elements still matters. There are lots of little hints about layout built into the HTML. If you have an HTML page with 5 divs, it's hard to show them in a random order without using absolute positioning.<br /><br />I think the point of CSS is to keep the HTML as clean as possible. If you strip away the CSS, you should get a plain looking, but functional page.<br /><br />I agree that using things like class="span-7 colborder" isn't 100% ideal. However, the logic is in a class attribute. It's not permeating the HTML structure itself, like using a table-based layout does.<br /><br />Using a class in this way doesn't seem very different from my other post http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2009/09/javascript-jquery-event-handling-in.html in which I showed how FriendFeed completely decides which JavaScript event handlers to hook up based on the class. I.e. class="l_expandcomments".<br /><br />Hence, the purpose of the class attribute is to loosely couple the HTML with the CSS and JavaScript. I guess it's a matter of taste whether something like "span-7" is coupling too tightly. The 7 does signify something about the width. However, it doesn't specify actual pixel values.jjinuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270879497119114175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11788780.post-57876604318659273762009-09-29T23:48:39.581-07:002009-09-29T23:48:39.581-07:00I just looked through css-boilerplate. It does as...I just looked through css-boilerplate. It does as it promises. It fixes some CSS stuff, but without any builtin grid stuff. I don't see much documentation, however, it looks pretty simple. It resets everything and provides its own default stying.jjinuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270879497119114175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11788780.post-23010804000501321052009-09-25T14:44:39.021-07:002009-09-25T14:44:39.021-07:00I was looking at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/d...I was looking at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download, and I was thinking to myself, "Wow, that looks just like a 960 Grid System layout." It turns out, I was right ;)jjinuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270879497119114175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11788780.post-51813478652445832382009-09-23T18:10:40.581-07:002009-09-23T18:10:40.581-07:00Thanks, Matt.Thanks, Matt.jjinuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270879497119114175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11788780.post-75928949714166896552009-09-23T16:23:42.495-07:002009-09-23T16:23:42.495-07:00I like the idea of using grids for layout, which a...I like the idea of using grids for layout, which actually long predates the web, originating from the days of hand typesetting. However, while the CSS grid frameworks probably make it a little faster to do the initial layout, I don't like that they depend strongly on mixing the presentation into the HTML.<br /><br />So, instead of the normal approach of adding semantic classes like "menu-bar" to the elements and styling that class from CSS, your presentation must be specified with classes like "columns-2". That said, it probably does make it a bit quicker to build new layouts, though changes to the layout may require changing more HTML files than a purely CSS-based layout.<br /><br />What we really need is another layer of abstraction, so that I can say class "menu-bar" should span 2 columns, where columns are defined as .... Stuff like the CSS3 Template Layout are looking kind of interesting, though a meta-CSS language or some crazy Genshi transforms to inject column definitions would be another interesting way to abstract the layout from the HTML.<br /><br />Interestingly, one of the original authors of Blueprint CSS now dislikes its un-semantic nature and has written a simpler set of CSS stylesheets that are more a "starter-kit" than framework:<br />http://code.google.com/p/css-boilerplate/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11788780.post-3590163916075127522009-09-22T21:25:42.495-07:002009-09-22T21:25:42.495-07:00Thanks, Simeon.Thanks, Simeon.jjinuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270879497119114175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11788780.post-14923935307272119472009-09-22T14:58:07.545-07:002009-09-22T14:58:07.545-07:00If you're getting into grids Blueprint is wort...If you're getting into grids Blueprint is worth a look too. It's a grid system plus some typography and form styling and it comes with some nice command line tools to store customizations and generate customized versions of the base framework...metapundit.nethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11729350517271714995noreply@blogger.com