Blueprint is a discontinued 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.
History Blueprint was first created by Olav Bjørkøy and released on August 3, 2007.Launch: Blueprint, a CSS framework. bjorkoy.com (2007-8-3). By August 11, Blueprint included work based on ideas from Jeff Croft, Nathan Borror, Christian Metts, and Eric A. Meyer.CSS Frameworks for Front-end Developers. byteswire.com. Retrieved on 2014-09-01. Version 0.8 was released on November 11, and included various bugfixes as well as a new "tabs" plugin.Blueprint version 0.8. (Archived) Christianmontoya.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-11. Blueprint's source repository was archived in April 2020.
Purpose One of the goals stated by the core team is to facilitate the development of new tools for working with CSS.Semantify, and CSS tools based on Blueprint . Christianmontoya.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-11. A variety of CSS generators, visual editors, themes, and frameworks are based on Blueprint, many of which can be found on the Blueprint Wiki.Mods, Forks and Alternatives . Wiki.github.com (2012-03-31). Retrieved on 2012-09-11.
License 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 Blueprint's README file lists the following features as being provided out-of-the-box:
A typographic baseline A stylesheet for printing An easily customizable grid Sensible default typography Perfected browser CSS reset Powerful scripts for customizationImpact of video size on website load times Video Compressor. Retrieved on 2023-03-07. Bloat Minimized as much as possible
See also CSS box model
References
External links Blueprint Webpage Wix Web Design