[Solar-talk] layout generator

[Clay Loveless]

On Aug 2, 2006, at 6:33 AM, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:

> Yesterday night I resurrected my YUI grids playground to see what
> could be done. I haven't gone much far, mainly because I haven't found
> a simple way to have fluid layouts *and* control over the columns
> widths and the grids paddings. This is a YUI Grids restriction, as
> they say, and so if there is no simple solution... it would be
> difficult for me to use them. Not that they don't have any use.

Interesting! I spent yesterday re-doing Mashery's pre-launch design  
with YUI Grids. It was a challenging but educational experience, and  
I now feel like I have the hang of it.

They're powerful but daunting in a lot of ways.

And, I don't know about you guys, but reading the YUI Grids page  
again *slowly* helped a lot. I realized that the first couple of  
times I read it, I actually only skimmed it, which is death if you  
try to skim-and-use. :) Full reading is definitely required for YUI  
Grids.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/

> Maybe you could provide some layout & css examples? So we could
> evaluate the possibilities.

I'm going to try to distill what I figured out yesterday into an  
article for my blog, and will provide some examples there. I need to  
make sure that what I figured out wasn't just a freak accident, but  
that I actually know what I'm doing. (Too often CSS results -- for  
me, at least -- are just decent looking freak accidents.)

Rodrigo, thanks for your mention of the One True Layout article ...  
I'll read through that today as well, and have downloaded your app to  
look at.

-Clay


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