Comments on: The lessons of CSS frameworks http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-lessons-of-css-frameworks Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 17 May 2012 07:43:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jpiperkerr http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-lessons-of-css-frameworks/comment-page-1#comment-266824 jpiperkerr Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:45:48 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4143#comment-266824 I don't see the performance issues being that great. If the framework is minified, compressed, and cached the added load over the wire is reasonable and isolated to the initial load. Combining this with optimized stylesheets for common landing pages for your site and delayed loading of site wide styles it is possible to hide potential usability performance issues behind a page that is completely rendered from the user's perspective. Also with a well thought out CSS framework it is possible to reduce the number of declarations in your site styles, and this can offset the added load over the wire added by a CSS framework. I don’t see the performance issues being that great. If the framework is minified, compressed, and cached the added load over the wire is reasonable and isolated to the initial load. Combining this with optimized stylesheets for common landing pages for your site and delayed loading of site wide styles it is possible to hide potential usability performance issues behind a page that is completely rendered from the user’s perspective. Also with a well thought out CSS framework it is possible to reduce the number of declarations in your site styles, and this can offset the added load over the wire added by a CSS framework.

]]> By: mancjew http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-lessons-of-css-frameworks/comment-page-1#comment-266815 mancjew Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:58:25 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4143#comment-266815 I think these frameworks came out of lessons learnt from building a large site that has multiple column layouts in different section of the site. These are probably quite useful for intranets where they can trade off some off the performance issues. I think these frameworks came out of lessons learnt from building a large site that has multiple column layouts in different section of the site.

These are probably quite useful for intranets where they can trade off some off the performance issues.

]]> By: LeoHorie http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-lessons-of-css-frameworks/comment-page-1#comment-266813 LeoHorie Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:43:20 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4143#comment-266813 They're great for prototyping, but not so great for high traffic sites like the Google front page. They’re great for prototyping, but not so great for high traffic sites like the Google front page.

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