Alright, you've convinced me - using BluePrint in the admin wouldn't be in our best interest, since we don't want a fixed-width pixel-based layout.
Thank you for the explanation. :) On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Michael Heilemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
