[Solar-talk] YUI Grids, anyone?

[Rodrigo Moraes]

On 1/5/07, Antti Holvikari wrote:
> I thought about creating some helpers too. But then, why would you
> need helpers to create a few divs? :-) Any thoughts on how to really
> implement this?

It's not exactly to create div's for a page I control by hand
(although it could be useful with a nice API), but to create an app
that let users create and combine the div's. That's what I've done
with The One True Layout (OTL), and the big difference is that it is
much easier to generate working HTML (for YUI Grids) than working CSS
(for OTL, which is much easier to generate HTML but I can tell it that
this is not worth the trouble you get with CSS).

I've done this by creating partials that were tied and combined
through a javascript rich interface ("choose colors", "set fonts",
"change width"), and then saved in a 'userland' template. It was easy
to use people loved it, but it put me in hell, and I want to move it
to a simpler CSS schema and of course improve the UI a bit.

rodrigo