Blueprint Layout Tool Progress

November 13th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

Blueprint Layout Tool 0.2

I’ve been working on a new version of the blueprint layout tool over the past few days. In order to build a foundation for the eventual goal of a wysiwyg, drag & drop editor with semantic markup I’ve needed to refactor the code & change several behaviors.

Current Status

Updated entire engine to Blueprint 0.6
Ported application from YUI to jQuery
Implemented multi-select capabilities
Replaced nested sorting of elements with explicit group & ungroup functionality
Added functionality to set & remove “.last” class on columns
Added Ghosting to sort functionality.

Going forward:

I hope to have the new version posted some time tonight. I hope to assimilate any major bug fixes & the blueprint grid generator into the next release. Then I’ll be working on semantify integration.

Filed under CSS, Tools, jQuery

5 Comments

New Version of Layout Tool Posted » By Don Albrecht » article » Ajax Bestiary
November 14th, 2007 at 9:04 am

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Kelter
November 14th, 2007 at 10:39 am

Very slick! Any chance of functionality in Safari 2?

thanks!
Don Albrecht
November 14th, 2007 at 10:55 am

It works in Safari 3, It should work in Safari 2. Every library used does support Safari 2 & I’m using dom manipulations not do execute commands.
Evan
January 13th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

This is great, wysiwyg is the way to go. Thanks your hard work!

Also, consider adding a “home” or “about” link to your tool’s page. I was initially directly linked to it and thus didn’t know who made it, or where to get more information about it.
Don Albrecht
January 13th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Thanks for the feedback,

I will be putting a stronger about page together as the software nears more solid footing. I will also soon place a redirect on the Ajaxbestiary version to the newest version at

http://www.blueprintlayouttool.com