I think this is a great idea, the one gripe I have is being stuck with 10 pixel space between columns, you might want 10, or 20, or 30 all in the same layout, I tend to just add more styles hacking the layout to accommodate my borders etc and or using nested divs.
I would be interested in your generator. ss On Aug 18, 7:21 pm, da <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is not a bad idea. It's a bit more bloated than what core > > Blueprint would want, but could be very useful for a lot of people as > > a plugin. > > Well, I went a head as a POC and came up with a javascript tool to > generate the CSS to allow for creating padded and/or bordered parent > containers where the nested divs are then re-adjusted to continue on > with the standard grid. > > It works. > > The drawback is that it's an extra 1000 lines of CSS. ;) > > But, even uncompressed it's 'only' 45kb. Big, but given that it's more > web-application centric, I think between compression and caching, it > might not be a big deal. > > Once I have it tweaked a bit more, I'll try and push out a public > version of the generator to get comments from people. Maybe it'll be > plug-in worthy. > > -DA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. 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/blueprintcss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
