Blueprint is a

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designed to reduce development time and ensure

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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. By August 11, Blueprint included work based on ideas from Jeff Croft, Nathan Borror, Christian Metts, and Eric A. Meyer.CSS Frameworks for Front-end Developers
byteswire.com. Retrieved on 2014-09-01. Version 0.8 was released on November 11, and included various

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es as well as a new "tabs" plugin.Blueprint version 0.8
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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
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Blueprint Wiki
Blueprint is released under a modified version of the

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, making it

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. It can be either used as is, or further adapted for use via a compression tool that is written in

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Features

Blueprint's README file lists the following features as being provided out-of-the-box: *A typographic baseline *A stylesheet for printing *An easily customizable grid *Sensible default

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*Perfected browser CSS reset *Powerful scripts for customizationImpact of video size on website load times
Video Compressor. Retrieved on 2023-03-07. *Bloat Minimized as much as possible

References

External links

Blueprint WebpageWeb Development
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blueprint (Css Framework) 2007 software CSS frameworks Software using the MIT license Free software programmed in Ruby

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