On 11/08/2014 11:12, MiB wrote:
aug 11 2014 11:04 Tim Dawson <t...@ramasaig.com>:
is it just the current buzz-word ?
I don’t think so, no. To me that’s like saying ”design" is a buzz word. Grids
are everywhere
in any design profession. Look att architecture: Grids, Cars: Grids, Papers:
Grids. Grids are
pretty much ubiquitous.
Your message crossed with a reply I'd just sent to your previous one.
From the design point of view OF COURSE we have a grid.
I'm not for one moment opposed to laying out web pages tidily. As I said before I've effectively
used 'grids' for years without calling them such, in two three and four column layouts. I'm not
suddenly proposing to make untidy web sites (I hope).
I AM struggling with what I see in tutorials, all that prepared CSS for narrow columns (1/8,
1/12 and other fractions) that I can't see being of more than very occasional use except in
multiples, which comes back to the 60/40 (70/30 or whatever) columns of a typical two column
layout etc. Particularly confusing are the rows with eight or twelve postage stamp sized boxes
of no practical use at all.
Is it all just to make the maths easier ? Grid based CSS seems to me to boil
down to:
"Making a load of 'column' class names for any multiple of one twelfth that I might reasonably
want to use and putting them into 'rows' in various combinations each totalling 1."
If it's significantly more than that I am seriously missing the entire point,
and need help.
Regards,
Tim
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