On 4/11/07, Stephen Waits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just curious if anyone here is using YUI, with or without Rails..
I am using the YUI CSS files a lot. I like knowing that Yahoo is paying a team to think through all the cross-browser issues and test the heck out of this stuff. The reset and fonts alone clear up a ton of common cross-browser issues. Plus I like not having to reinvent the wheel whenever I do layouts and columns, because inevitably I cut corners that I shouldn't. I usually add some vertical-rhythm CSS to another file or the end of a reset-fonts-grids.css, and lately I've been using topfunky's Baseline Rhythm Calculator to crunch those numbers: http://topfunky.com/baseline-rhythm-calculator/ By the time I set up the reset, fonts, grids, and vertical rhythm, I've got most of the presentation's implementation details taken care of, which lets me focus on application-specific presentation issues and keeps my application.css a lot smaller. There are some downsides to the grids. I've heard people talk about extra overhead, non-semantic divs, and separating presentation from style. I don't get too stressed out about those sort of things. I think they're pretty minor in this case, and the YUI CSS saves me enough time in the long run to definitely be worth it. Plus the CSS files themselves are pretty tiny. Less than 5k. Haven't used the YUI Javascript stuff at all. It seems cool, but I know Prototype and scriptaculous better so that's what I use. -- Nick Zadrozny • http://missionsbridge.org/people/nick
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