YUI
I love Yahoo!'s user interface library YUI because it's one of the best designed and best documented libraries available. YUI doesn't pollute namespace, plays nicely with evil browsers, and most importantly it's generously licensed.
I'm addicted to reset-fonts-grids which I find indispensable:
- Neutralise browser styles
- Normalise fonts.
- Impeccable, IAB ad unit compliant, SEO friendly layouts.
This whole setup is great, and generally saves time, effort and cross-browser stresses, however, the cost of all this goodness, and in particular reset, is that you have to remember to restyle even basic html elements such as <strong>.
I often forget (because I'm hopeless), and because I make extensive use of markup like Markdown, I spent too much time wondering why my nicely marked-down content doesn't look right.
No longer....
Even more goodies
New in the YUI 2.3.0 release is Base CSS.
Base CSS (re)applies common styles to your document post reset, thus making your basic html elements look as they should in their most basic form.
It's a fantastic addition to the library, and I've already rushed out and incorporated Base CSS into a couple of sites where the CSS was irking me.
YUI just keeps getting stronger and stronger - thanks team!
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Comments 3
This page looks great in Firefox, but not so good in MSIE. Care? ;)
Posted August 15, 2007 at 9:48 p.m. ¶Hi, as per the comment above, I think if you update DIV#wrapper to use WIDTH of 64 em or above it should have enough space to be together. currently it is 60 em. I have been searching on google to find how to use the YUI css framework, particularly the base css(the main use of it). After looking at your post I got a lead that I will need use the a.) reset-font-grid and b.) then apply the base to give some default behaviour and c.) finally style the application (like your styles.css). I have been looking for articles for the use of base css and I think this is the best and even more important you used it here and it was easy for me to see how it can be applied. Thanks a ton for the post!!
Posted December 14, 2007 at 10:26 p.m. ¶Hey TK. Thanks for the tip, and thanks for dropping by. I've been hopeless with updating my blog lately - so many things going on. You've re-inspired me!
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Posted December 18, 2007 at 11:18 a.m. ¶Comments are now closed.