fiddle2 entry

Date: 2008-04-15 14:05:29 (Author: trav)
Link: http://travis.kroh.net/archives/005022.php

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Some folks in #symfony were talking about CSS "frameworks" today, and I am in awe.

• hartija CSS Print Framework
  First of all, where do they get off calling this a "framework?" It's forty lines of CSS rules. This is just some dude's print stylesheet. That's it.
• blueprintcss CSS framework
  Okay, so this at least is more substantial, which brings it out of the laughable category, and it's a little closer to a "framework" since it provides something like "functionality" such as the "grid" feature:

  The first thing you do, is surround your grid with a container: <div class="container"> <p>Here's my site!</p> </div> You then use div's with one of the .span-x classes to set how many columns the elements should span.
  Here are some examples: <div class="container"> <div class="span-24"> Header </div> <div class="span-4"> Left sidebar </div> <div class="span-16"> Main content </div> <div class="span-4 last"> Right sidebar </div> </div> Notice the "last" class, which every last element inside a container or another column needs.

  This is such a horribly bad idea. The whole point of CSS is to separate the content from its display. Using a class of "span-4" has absolutely no semantic value at all, and is tantamount to a named style attribute. This project is clearly run by people who have completely missed the point. If it weren't such a comical failure, it would almost make me sad.