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How anyone here compared BlueprintCSS to YUI CSS foundation?

In an interview linked from the wiki, the creator said: "The first CSS framework I checked out was the Yahoo User Interface Library, but found it to be way too bloated for what I want from a designers framework."

Here's an interesting response: http://foohack.com/2007/08/blueprint-css-framework-vs-yui-gr...

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YUI css is designed to do a few layouts well and make other layouts possible. Its not bad, but it is clunky to work with and a pain if you don't fit one of its proportional models precisely.

Blueprint is more logical and conceptually easier to understand - everything is put on a flexible grid and you choose how many grid units you want to use for each layout block.

I dig the rest of the YUI toolkit, but compared to blueprint, YUI CSS feels like a hack.

Blueprint was a snap for me to pick up and the markup looks good (concerns about mixing style and semantics notwithstanding).

As for the YUI CSS libraries, well, my eyes crossed a little when I looked at the markup. I only checked YUI CSS out briefly, though.

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