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Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

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Re: Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

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Post by csswizardry »

citizenkeys wrote: post #10

Looks cool (pun intended). The website could use more demo pages, though. It could also have a section "Sites using Inuit.css" with screenshots. Why would I use Inuit.css instead of Blueprint ( http://www.blueprintcss.org/ )?

Those are all great ideas, thanks. I'm already considering an 'inuit.css in the wild' type section, as soon as enough people start using it in production.

I definitely need to scale the site up somewhat as it currently doesn't do such a great job on the selling front.

This took off far more quickly than I expected. I only launched five days ago...

Cheers for the feedback :)

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Re: Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

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Post by wccrawford »

citizenkeys wrote: post #10

Looks cool (pun intended). The website could use more demo pages, though. It could also have a section "Sites using Inuit.css" with screenshots. Why would I use Inuit.css instead of Blueprint ( http://www.blueprintcss.org/ )?

Agreed. I need to see some usage.

Re: Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

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Post by defroost »

citizenkeys wrote: post #10

Looks cool (pun intended). The website could use more demo pages, though. It could also have a section "Sites using Inuit.css" with screenshots. Why would I use Inuit.css instead of Blueprint ( http://www.blueprintcss.org/ )?

Why would I use Blueprint, when I could use the excellent 960 ( http://960.gs/ ) by Nathan Smith? To me all of the above choices are good as long as there is a way to use Sass ( http://sass-lang.com/ ) like in Compass ( http://compass-style.org/ ) to remove the presentation code from your markup, i.e. span-8, grid_4, etc., using sass. Compass defaults to Blueprint, but thankfully there is the excellent compass-960 plugin ( https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass-960-plugin ) so you also can use 960.

Anyway, I will try Intuit and see how it compares to the above. Thanks.

Re: Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

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Post by rmccue »

> I’ve put a little system in place where, instead of margin-right:20px;, the grid items have a margin-left:20px; applied. This pushes them all a little too far across but doesn’t break if you put them in a container that is 20px too wide. Then, once all that’s happened you pull the container back by 20px.

That doesn't really make sense to me. Why not just use :last-child, and use a JS fallback if you really want to support browsers that don't support that?

Re: Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

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Post by glenjamin »

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> IE6 is a perfect baseline to start from

IE 6 is a terrible baseline to start from its almost a decade old, Microsoft is trying to wean users off it - making your website look nice in IE6 isn't helping this cause.

Make it just about functional in IE6, and perhaps include a notice to the user that recommends they upgrade.

Re: Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

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glenjamin wrote: post #16
[deleted] wrote: post #14

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> IE6 is a perfect baseline to start from IE 6 is a terrible baseline to start from its almost a decade old, Microsoft is trying to wean users off it - making your website look nice in IE6 isn't helping this cause. Make it just about functional in IE6, and perhaps include a notice to the user that recommends they upgrade.

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Re: Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

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Post by perlgeek »

citizenkeys wrote: post #10

Looks cool (pun intended). The website could use more demo pages, though. It could also have a section "Sites using Inuit.css" with screenshots. Why would I use Inuit.css instead of Blueprint ( http://www.blueprintcss.org/ )?

> Why would I use Inuit.css instead of Blueprint ( http://www.blueprintcss.org/ )?

Make your viewport smaller than the default page width of the website. Do you see horizontal scroll bars? yes for bluebprint, no for innuit. Which makes innuit the clear winner for me.

Some weeks ago I spent some time skimming through various CSS frameworks, and ended up usinig emastic ( http://code.google.com/p/emastic/ ) because it can be made to work well with small browser viewports, and because you can use em/ex instead of px for denoting sizes.

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