Blueprint is a CSS framework designed to reduce development time and ensure Cross-browser compatibility when working with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It also serves as a foundation for many tools designed to make CSS development easier and more accessible to beginners.
| Final release | 1.0.1
/ May 14, 2011[1] |
|---|---|
| Repository | github |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | www |
History edit
Blueprint was first created by Olav Bjørkøy and released on August 3, 2007.[2] By August 11, Blueprint included work based on ideas from Jeff Croft, Nathan Borror, Christian Metts, and Eric Meyer.[3] Version 0.8 was released on November 11, and included various bugfixes as well as a new "tabs" plugin.[4]
Purpose edit
One of the goals stated by the core team is to facilitate the development of new tools for working with CSS.[5] A variety of CSS generators, visual editors, themes, and frameworks are based on Blueprint, many of which can be found on the Blueprint Wiki.[6]
Blueprint is released under a modified version of the MIT License, making it free software. It can be either used as is, or further adapted for use via a compression tool that is written in Ruby.
Features edit
Blueprint's README file lists the following features as being provided out-of-the-box:
- A typographic baseline
- An easily customizable grid
- Sensible default typography
- Perfected browser CSS reset
- A stylesheet for printing
- Powerful scripts for customization[7]
- Bloat Minimized as much as possible
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "joshuaclayton/blueprint-css". GitHub. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
This repository has been archived by the owner. It is now read-only.
- ^ Launch: Blueprint, a CSS framework. bjorkoy.com (2007-8-3).
- ^ CSS Frameworks for Front-end Developers. byteswire.com. Retrieved on 2014-09-01.
- ^ Blueprint version 0.8. (Archived) Christianmontoya.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-11.
- ^ Semantify, and CSS tools based on Blueprint Archived January 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Christianmontoya.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-11.
- ^ Mods, Forks and Alternatives Archived 2010-03-30 at the Wayback Machine. Wiki.github.com (2012-03-31). Retrieved on 2012-09-11.
- ^ Impact of video size on website load times Video Compressor. Retrieved on 2023-03-07.