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Essay on CSS Frameworks

March 24th, 2009 by Dirk Jesse | News | 2 Comments

HTML and CSS are interpreted on the client side. Code should therefore be kept as streamlined as possible for any individual project. CSS frameworks, however, are project-independent modular systems, built with the goal of presenting the most universal solutions for the greatest variety of layouts. How do these seemingly incompatible approaches fit together?

As the developer of the (X)HTML/CSS Framework YAML, I constantly have to meet this challenge to keep the development of YAML on course. Together with Nils Pooker I wrote an essay on this topic and published it on my website in German and English language. In this essay, we clarify our position on the most common criticisms of frameworks.

Comments and discussions are strongly encouraged.