Blueprint is a
CSS framework
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designed to reduce development time and ensure
Cross-browser
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History
Background
The history ...
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](_blank)
bjorkoy.com (2007-8-3). By August 11, Blueprint included work based on ideas from Jeff Croft, Nathan Borror, Christian Metts, and
Eric Meyer.
[CSS Frameworks for Front-end Developers](_blank)
byteswire.com. Retrieved on 2014-09-01. Version 0.8 was released on November 11, and included various
bugfix
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es as well as a new "tabs" plugin.
[Blueprint version 0.8](_blank)
(Archived) Christianmontoya.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-11.
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](_blank)
. 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 th
Blueprint Wiki
Blueprint is released under a modified version of the
MIT License
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, making it
free software
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. It can be either used as is, or further adapted for use via a compression tool that is written in
Ruby
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.
Features
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
Impact 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
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2007 software
CSS frameworks
Software using the MIT license
Free software programmed in Ruby