Ask YC: YUI for CSS grid

9 points by ra 18y ago ↗ HN

I'm a big fan of blueprint for CSS, it's simple and does the job well.

However, I'm considering the YUI grid for my next project, mainly because I want fluid layouts.

Does anyone have any experience with fluid YUI grids to share?

thanks very much!

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I tried the YUI and ExtJS grids. Both seem to have quirks, but in the end I chose ExtJS and it has worked for me so far. I looked at things like performance to add dynamically 100 rows, and general flexibility.

DougBTX 18y ago ↗

He's talking about grids for page layout, not for columns of data.

Example: http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2007/0402_layers_cake.ph...

chaostheory 18y ago ↗

i'm using yui grids now. overall it's not bad... one quirk taht somewhat annoys me is that their 100% grid isn't really 100% - there is a noticable space on both the right and left

a lot of ppl also complain that yui is as verbose as tables... not to mention the M$ buyout is looming over my head. I'm wondering if this will affect all of Yahoo's open source efforts, since M$ still isn't very friendly towards open source (yui becomes ie centric)

jauco 18y ago ↗

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

On the advice of our designers, the 100% grid (#doc3) has 10px of margin on the left and right sides. This prevents the content from bleeding into the browser's chrome. If you prefer, you can set it back to zero by adding this to your document:

#doc3 {margin:auto;}

scorpioxy 18y ago ↗

I have used YUI grids extensively on a large scale website i am working on. It is very good and i try to use it whenever i can instead of handwriting my layout.

I would definitely recommend it. In fact, i would recommend all of YUI both the JS part and the css part. I also would like to try blueprint when i get a chance.

Oh, and for the quirks, well they're not really quirks. Anybody who has tried to write cross platform css and JS would tell you of the nightmares that they get if they ever get to sleep. Listen to Nate Koechley talk about grids and base....he explains a lot of the decisions taken.

jamongkad 18y ago ↗

All my web apps use Blueprint. Never had a problem with it whatsoever. YUI seems good but doesn't have the simplicity and elegance of Blueprint imho.

michaelr 18y ago ↗

I haven't experienced any issues using the YUI css stuff; although I haven't tried to do anything beyond the common use cases. However, I think it's worth using if only to leverage the cross browser testing they've done.