Tag: blueprint

Here you can see a listing of all the posts tagged with blueprint on this website.

  • BlueprintCSS alive again

    Posted on Aug. 16, 2008 at 01:42 +0200 Tagged with , ,

    A small update on the whole BlueprintCSS front from what I could gather on the mailinglist etc.: The old site on Google code is basically dead. The development will probably continue on a new repository on GitHub with a tracker on Lighthouseapp thanks to Joshua Clayton, where I moved all the currently active tickets to a couple of days ago. Christian Montoya, who's been in the same boat as contributor to BlueprintCSS as Joshua before, has now also set up a new website on blueprintcss.org that first of all points people to the new repository in order to make people aware of the change. The goal here is to get a high enough pagerank so that people won't stumble upon the "old" project site and think the project is dead.

    [more ...]

    0 comments

  • BlueprintCSS ready to be forked?

    Posted on Aug. 6, 2008 at 22:59 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    At least if you read the official mailinglist it might look like that too you. Olav Bjørkøy, the original author of BlueprintCSS, basically dropped of the net in March (except for some twittering ;-)) and nothing has really happened with the framework since then. If it were bug-free, this wouldn't be a problem, but since it is not (hint: the ie.css still requires class names that have been removed from the rest with 0.7) it weird, to say the least. Not that Olav seems to be the only person with commit permissions there, but perhaps he's the only one who can commit to the root folder.

    Now, after 5 months of stagnation, some people on the official mailing-list are starting to wonder, if Blueprint is really dead and Christian Montoya wrote in the same post

    [...] , but if Olav is really gone, I'm willing to pick up support for BP and maybe even develop it to version 0.8.

    Another problem the Blueprint community currently faces is that no one seems to be administrating the mailing-list, which kind of invites spam right now.

    That said, I personally don't have any problems with the framework (except for the ie.css), but some of the other problems in the issue tracker look definitely like issues, that should be resolved if Blueprint should stay interesting for developers and designers out there. I can just hope, that this all gets resolved rather quickly now that there are finally some people thinking about solutions.

    Update: Joshua Clayton has no created a repository on github, which hopefully wake some people up again ;-)

    0 comments

  • BarCamp SenzaConfini 2008: CSS Frameworks

    Posted on Feb. 3, 2008 at 14:04 +0100 Tagged with , , , , , , , ,

    Big day, not so big presentation ;-) My primary goal here is, to introduce the idea of CSS frameworks as described for instance by Jeff Croft et al. After that, I also started giving a really brief overview about Blueprint, YUI and YAML.

    Enjoy :-)

    0 comments