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Object Oriented Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

“How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? Nicole first presented Object Oriented CSS at Web Directions North in Denver. Since then, the response has been overwhelming. OOCSS allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites.”

From stubbornella at github. The slide presentation does a good job of explaining the problems with current CSS coding, for example, the lack of  CSS code re-use. However, I’m leery of CSS frameworks like Blueprint because (in my view) they go too far and create too much code and require too much learning to implement easily across many websites. Not to mention they can be difficult to maintain if the next coder is not familiar with the CSS framework and has to fix the CSS styles. That said, improving how you code cascading style sheets is an important topic and worth reading about different possible solutions.

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