Blueprint (CSS framework)

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Blueprint is a CSS framework designed to reduce development time and ensure cross-browser compatibility when working with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It also serves as a foundation for many tools designed to make CSS development easier and more accessible to beginners.

History

Blueprint was first created by Olav Bjørkøy and released on August 3, 2007.[1] By August 11, Blueprint included work based on ideas from Jeff Croft, Nathan Borror, Christian Metts, and Eric A. Meyer.[2] Version 0.8 was released on November 11, and included various bugfixes as well as a new "tabs" plugin.[3]

Purpose

One of the goals stated by the core team is to facilitate the development of new tools for working with CSS.[4] A variety of CSS generators, visual editors, themes, and frameworks are based on Blueprint, many of which can be found on the Blueprint Wiki.[5]

Blueprint is released under a modified version of the MIT License, making it free software. It can be either used as is, or further adapted for use via a compression tool that is written in Ruby.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Features

Blueprint's README file lists the following features as being provided out-of-the-box:

  • A typographic baseline
  • A stylesheet for printing
  • An easily customizable grid
  • Sensible default typography
  • Perfected browser CSS reset
  • Powerful scripts for customization[6]
  • Bloat Minimized as much as possible

See also

References

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  1. Launch: Blueprint, a CSS framework. bjorkoy.com (2007-8-3).
  2. CSS Frameworks for Front-end Developers. byteswire.com. Retrieved on 2014-09-01.
  3. Blueprint version 0.8. (Archived) Christianmontoya.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-11.
  4. Semantify, and CSS tools based on Blueprint Template:Webarchive. Christianmontoya.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-11.
  5. Mods, Forks and Alternatives Template:Webarchive. Wiki.github.com (2012-03-31). Retrieved on 2012-09-11.
  6. Impact of video size on website load times Video Compressor. Retrieved on 2023-03-07.

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