Open DAWS v4.0.1. Theory For a long time, we've built sites that specified column widths in HTML. This leads to a compromised design, with an app or site that looks good on a single large resolution, and reasonable on mobile. It also produces HTML stuffed with non-semantic class names. This isn't good enough. The Open Digital Application Wireframing Styleset (or OpenDAWS) is an attempt to correct this. what OpenDAWS is... OpenDAWS can be thought of as an structured library; that is to say, it's a huge set of resets and helpful classes, as well as the logic for grid layouts, but without any of the constraints of a full framework.
This means that you can create a design limited in width only by the user's viewport size. Moreover, by not specifying widths in HTML, we're free to completely change how our design looks at these sizes. ... & what it isn't This is not a full framework, in the vein of Foundation, Bootstrap or Skeleton.
It's also not an attempt to style everything. Basic usage html <header>... mobile css. The Goldilocks Approach to Responsive Web Design. Base - A super simple, responsive framework designed to work for mobile devices, tablets, netbooks and desktop computers. YAML CSS Framework — for truly flexible, accessible and responsive websites. The Goldilocks Approach to Responsive Web Design. 320 and Up | The ‘tiny screen first’ responsive boilerplate.
Csswizardry/inuit.css. Frameless. Responsivize - Responsive Website Framework. Amazium - The responsive web framework..! Initializr - Start an HTML5 Boilerplate project in 15 seconds! Twitter Bootstrap. Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development. Foundation: The Most Advanced Responsive Front-end Framework from ZURB. Gumby 960 Grid Responsive CSS Framework. Less Framework 4. I called Less Framework "a CSS grid system for designing adaptive websites". It was basically a fixed-width grid that adapted to a couple of then popular screen widths by shedding some of its columns.
It also had matching typographic presets to go with it, built with a modular scale based on the golden ratio. The resources it was originally published with are still available on GitHub. Contrary to how most CSS frameworks work, Less Framework simply provided a set of code comments and visual templates, instead of having predefined classes to control the layout with. This is how I still work today and definitely a method I advocate. Predefined layout code makes too many assumptions, getting in the way whenever I try to do anything different. /* Default Layout: 992px. Less Framework was popular in the early days of responsive design. Eventually, I moved on from fixed-width grid systems and worked on a fully fluid-width one, in the form of Golden Grid System.