An Inventory of Blueprint’s Style Resets and Useful Classes
A friend contacted me about using the Baseline WordPress theme, but asked why I included both Blueprint and the 960 Grid System. The short answer is that Blueprint has a number of browser resets that I like to take advantage of and 960 GS offers greater flexibility in terms of the width of columns and their gutter widths. Especially if you want to adhere to the Golden Ratio for design. 960 pixels divides very neatly into 3.
Let’s take a look at what Blueprint does to reset some things to establish a cross-browser baseline. (more…)