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  • 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.

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  • 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 ;-)

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  • 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 :-)

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  • Too much salt in the CSS soup

    Posted on July 25, 2006 at 09:43 +0200 Tagged with , , , ,

    One of the funniest things I've ever seen: On Malarkey there was just a few days ago a small game of CSS (to convince John C. Dvorak of the power of CSS) were the author simply tells, what HTML elements can be styled within a stylesheet and then leaves it to commenters to come up with the actual definitions. An additional rule was that there was only one stylesheet, so each comment has to be based on the previous ones.

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  • S5 is no longer a one-man show

    Posted on July 23, 2006 at 15:41 +0200 Tagged with , , , , ,

    Eric Meyer's web standards based presentation system S5 seems to be about to move out into its own project home with s5project.org, set up by Ryan King. The aim seems to be to offer all S5 users a community platform for sharing information and customizations.

    And for those of you that don't know S5 yet, think about it as PowerPoint in your web browser using XHTML, JavaScript and CSS.

    For more details about what is going on with S5 and what is planed for the near future, check out the announcement by Ryan King :)

    Hmm.... that somehow reminds me that I was actually working on an "Alternatives to PowerPoint" article when I wrote a paper a month or so ago ...

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