Comments on: YAML the CSS framework

By: obtuse

obtuse — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:01:20 +0000

Have to change the name. YAML is taken. See http://www.yaml.org.

By: Will Peavy

Will Peavy — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:04:14 +0000

This looks like an excellent tool. Builder is very intuitive, and I plan to use it in the prototyping phase of an upcoming project.

By: .mario

.mario — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:54:09 +0000

@Adnan: CSS-Layouts. PraxislÃ¶sungen mit YAML (german title) http://www.amazon.de/CSS-Layouts-Praxisl%C3%B6sungen-YAML-Dirk-Jesse/dp/3898428370

By: handy

handy — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:40:38 +0000

WOWWW! It’s Great! I’ll use it.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:18:41 +0000

He needs to rename it. YAML is definately already taken.

By: Frank Thuerigen

Frank Thuerigen — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:20:57 +0000

@David Walsh: RE: “is CSS really that hard?”
Yes it is, especially if designs become more complex and you need the results cross-A-Browsers… so doing prototyping like this is very time savy. Most people that I heard of do not touch the main YAML structure in the course of the project, it just works as-is. And overall YAML is a great piece of work IMHO and the result of a long effort. Well done, IÂ´d say.

By: Satts

Satts — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:16:04 +0000

Excellent Article but a minor spelling mistake in the first paragraph ;-)

By: zero0x

zero0x — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:15:38 +0000

yea that app was developed in jquery, that’s why i’m looking for source,

dirk, can u share the source code please?

By: Adnan Siddiqi

Adnan Siddiqi — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:02:34 +0000

It has been developed in jQuery. WOW!

By: Adnan Siddiqi

Adnan Siddiqi — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:49:38 +0000

@Mario: what’s the name of his book?

By: Dirk Jesse

Dirk Jesse — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:46:01 +0000

Hello, thanks for your feedback. Of course I know the discussion about the amount of divs in the markup but as YAML is focussed on flexible layouts, there are good reasons for this way in a framework when you want to offer real freedom to the designer. The documentation is nothing for reading in a minute but i promise, it’s worth reading it! Definitely there will be a learning curve when you starting with YAML as features like the Top-Down-Principle or the way YAML deals with IE-Bugs is something, not everyone is familiar with.

By: zero0x

zero0x — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:38:56 +0000

I really like it, especially the builder application! It is really nice work, well done!

PS Is there uncompressed and commented source code of the builder?

By: Michael McCorry

Michael McCorry — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:44:40 +0000

A brilliant tool for lightning fast prototyping and wireframing. I agree with David above that for final production stuff, it would involve a bit of tweaking, optimizing, etc, or custom build by hand, but to quickly get things up and online (eg wireframing a webapp) this is fantastic. Thanks for your hard work Dirk. :)

By: AndrÃ¡s BÃ¡rthÃ¡zi

AndrÃ¡s BÃ¡rthÃ¡zi — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:52:03 +0000

Please forget the name “YAML”. :( A new domain name is not so expensive. :)

Anyway, the application is quite cool as I think. I’m thinking about including something like this into my framework, it would be a nice tool to start a project quickly, even if I know CSS + HTML.

By: Alex Hernandez

Alex Hernandez — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:18:38 +0000

A good piece of work for fast web development prototyping. I like it.

.::AleX::.

By: .mario

.mario — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:13:41 +0000

@David: It is – depending on complexity and skill. Dirk has done great work with this tool. Btw – read his book ;)

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:53:26 +0000

Awesome project, but is building a decent CSS layout really that hard? Doing it by hand is always the best way.

By: Jon Hartmann

Jon Hartmann — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:40:55 +0000

Builders of all kinds always produce waste, its the cost vs doing it by hand. The app itself is crazy cool though.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:59:52 +0000

That thing produces enough divs to make 4 websites… Just saying. I guess it works if you simply want to avoid tables without taking the time to understanding CSS layouts.

By: Mark Holton

Mark Holton — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:50:57 +0000

in a word… WOW. Impressive work by Mr. Dirk Jesse. Been trying various non-table column layouts for awhile, this is very cool. Also, that builder app is super slick and could be a HUGE timesaver. Phenomenal. [bookmarked!]