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Baseline - a framework built with typographic standards in mind (baselinecss.com)
12 points by edd on Sept 8, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Blueprint has vertical baseline-alignment built in and is a bit older, but this looks worth a try as well. I'm not sure what's up with the proliferation of CSS frameworks lately though, do we really need that many of them?


no. We don't need so many. I think they are an excuse for people not to learn a technique themselves. In general the win from using one of these frameworks is small and the overhead is high - you'd be as well off to just learn how to lay out a grid and deal with margins/padding, etc manually. Their use also seems to come at the expense of messing up your html by shooting it with the class/id shotgun - something some people seem ok with but I dislike.

Maybe it's a sign that css needs to refined in some areas to make it easier or clearer to do the things people are try to do.



Used it and it totally ignored Internet Explorer. Looks pretty shitty in IE6-8.




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