Blueprint. A CSS Framework.

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Over the past year or so, the industry has been mak­ing some great inroads into stream­lin­ing some of our pro­cesses. We have Micro­formats for stand­ard­iz­ing how we mark up cer­tain data. John Allsopp’s Web Pat­terns is gath­er­ing pace and recently Tantek et all star­ted work on solv­ing the ‘why do I always have to re-enter my user data in every social net­work­ing app?’ prob­lem, or the easier to say, Social Net­work­ing Port­ab­il­ity. These are all great and everything, but they have data at their core, not the present­a­tion of that data. Until recently, we didn’t have a usable sys­tem for cre­at­ing layouts.

That was until a Nor­we­gian chap called Olav Fri­ha­gen Bjørkøy released a CSS frame­work called Blue­print last Fri­day. The key dif­fer­ence between this and other frame­works is Blue­print has been cre­ated from a typo­graphic design basis. 

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