Alright, so I was asked to talk about why I don't think Blueprint CSS should be a part of the admin. It's quite simple really; it doesn't do anything we need. The admin is relatively small and very specialized. Most of our styling needs are very specific, and require specific solutions, and of those things, what we can grab from BP is really only the baselining (or 'reset') stuff, which is a very small part of it, and not really a BP exclusive.
But what we're getting, is not only an entire pixel-based column system, that doesn't allow for percentage-based columns (which is what we use) and a bunch of styling classes like .success, .error, .quiet, .first and so on, which not only do not add anything we need, but have actually managed to confuse me on more than one occasion by applying styling to things I hadn't expected. Now, the reason we use percentages, in case anyone is wondering, is because there is no reason not to. And it allows us to switch resolution by changing numbers in a single place (the #page declaration in admin.css as it were) without having to recalculate a column-based pixel matrix. And if that forces us a little more leg-work in dealing with paddings and margins, then that's a burden I think we should take upon ourselves. Now, this goes only for screen.css, and not print.css, though I suppose you could argue that there is little sense in printing anything from the admin anyway, except perhaps the log. But then we'd probably be better off creating a text-based export function for that anyway. I've checked in a new admin.css just now, which includes the reset stuff from BP, and thus negates any need for BP in the admin, just to show how little we use. -- Michael Heilemann http://binarybonsai.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
