Show HN: inuit.css—lightweight, Sass-based, OOCSS framework

by csswizardry • 14 years ago

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csswizardry5• 14 years ago

Project creator here! If anyone has any questions then please fire away. This blog post may also shed some light on a few things: http://csswizardry.com/2012/09/inuit-css-v4-oocss-sass-and-m...

Cheers, H

ihsw• 14 years ago

What was the inspiration for the name?

csswizardry5• 14 years ago

I was discussing wanting to build a decent framework with my ex, and I said it would be a ‘cool’ thing to do. A brief bit of word association to-and-fro and me being reminded of the lyric/phrase ‘Cooler than a polar bear’s toenails’ I/we arrived at Inuit :)

_neil• 14 years ago

I've used inuit in a couple projects (though not the most recent version) and would highly recommend it.

The trend lately seems to be immediately reaching for Bootstrap, which is a little bit shameful for those who might consider themselves legit front-end devs. While bootstrap is a great tool for prototyping, it's also led to a lot of boring, cookie-cutter apps.

tmchow• 14 years ago

Bootstrap sites only look cookie cutter if you use the default styling out of the box. If you take time customize the styles, you can get fairly differentiated sites.

Check out some of the styles on https://wrapbootstrap.com/.

dmix• 14 years ago

Have you tried http://foundation.zurb.com/?

It seems to be a more designer-friendly framework.

Haven't tried inuit.

lucisferre3• 14 years ago

Any reason it's all contained in one file instead of broken up?

youngtaff• 14 years ago

Why would you want to break it up?

csswizardry5• 14 years ago

For a framework it might be a nicer option, so that you can drop a module by only deleting the include reference rather than permanently deleting dozens of lines. Perhaps. It’s largely down to taste I imagine :)

lucisferre3• 14 years ago

As far as I'm concerned CSS is no different than any other code and should be separated into modules so it's easier to read and understand. This is especially true if you're using something like SCSS.

This SMACSS book recommends this and frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation pretty much follow that approach.

csswizardry5• 14 years ago

I personally like working that way, but I think I might split it out so that dropping an object only takes deleting one line from a file and not dozens :)

lucisferre3• 14 years ago

More importantly when people contribute or wish to extend the project they can do so by adding a new module file instead of editing the existing code. Open closed principle.

Also if people are importing using SMACSS they can also select individual modules to import if they prefer that to importing everything.

csswizardry5• 14 years ago

Broken it up! Thanks :)

https://github.com/csswizardry/inuit.css/blob/master/inuit.c...

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