[Solar-talk] __layouts

[Rodrigo Moraes]

Hi,
The day before I sent this e-mail about __layouts, I started to play
with it and liked very very much what I had after a short time. I was
not completely happy with YUI Grids, which I was using in the games
site, because you can't have columns with a specific width and
accommodate standard banner sizes in a pixel perfect manner.

So I changed the layout skeleton to use ___layouts instead and wow!...
it not only allows pixel perfect grids, but also it is much easier to
work with. All you have is a basic structure which is almost the same
for all grids, and it's very easy to remember. For example, a 4
columns grid uses the class a-b-c-d, the three columns uses the class
a-b-c, etc. To customize the widths, you add an id to the grid or an
additional class (or you can choose to not customize them and use the
standard columns sizes).

So I can say that it is pixel perfect, straightforward, customizable
and works perfectly on all browsers I've tested. Very very impressive.
I started yesterday a new website and I think I've never built a
layout structure faster.

I wonder what Clay plans for the css-framework regarding layout
structures; this scheme may help for the rough skeleton part. I'm very
interested to help building layout widgets; so let us know the news
first! :)

cheers,
rodrigo