Ribs v1.0.9

Ribs is the evolution of Skeleton, the original author seems to have disappeared and/or lost interest in the project, and my colleagues and I use this an awful lot.

What's different here?

My fork has one significant difference over the original project, that is a full SCSS conversion to make use of more modern technologies and to expose a lot more customisation options quickly and easily.

As time goes by, and with enough interest I will gradually extend the available options and build a packaging tool that allows you to select all of your customisations in a graphical way - thinking something along the lines of jQuery themeroller, just a bit more lightweight.

Some Key Differences

Maintained!
Configurable grid
Default colours, borders, fonts, margins, padding etc are all configurable variables
Normalized elements, rather than the old school CSS resets
Sensible Table styles
Taking advantage of sass, the majority of selector repetition is removed in favour of mixins that generate the selectors
Many issues flagged by CSSLint refactored to resolve them
The original CSS has been split out into individual files and heavily refactored to tidy it up
Golden ratio default line heights
A selection of useful mixins
Push and pull column classes
Bower installable

Installing

Either clone this repository and drop in manually, or install from bower:

bower install --save ribs

Build status

The project is set up to build and run csslint on Travis:

Master:
Development:

Building

I've added grunt configuration to the repository for those of you that use it.

There are 4 main tasks added: default - Runs Sass to create the stylesheet from the source files, places the output in ./css then creates a minified version of the file and places it into the same directory test - This runs CSSLint over the output CSS file (Note that there are a few bits in the original skeleton css that I still need to fix!) minify - This literally just runs cssmin, useful if you've edited Ribs.css directly watch - This will monitor the scss directory for changes and automatically rebuild the css and minified css (Effectively the same as sass --watch but with added minification)

To get started with the grunt tools

You need to install grunt-cli globally (npm install -g grunt-cli) to start with, otherwise you wont have a runner! Then following that, from the root dir of this project, run npm install which will set up all of the required dependencies.

You should be good to go.

Changelog

Oct 15, 2013 - (v1.0.9) Default flag added to variables - Thanks to Ivo Bathke (@ivoba)
Oct 10, 2013 - (v1.0.8) Initial inline documentation, styledocco based docs generation, fixed breakpoint oversight on media queries for tablet and mobile
Oct 10, 2013 - (v1.0.7) Documented the differences between the original skeleton project and Ribs, Updated normalize to 2.1.3
Aug 7, 2013 - (v1.0.6) Some additional variables, grid push and pull
Jul 17, 2013 - (v1.0.5) Some additional variables, some base table styling
Jul 14, 2013 - (v1.0.4) Removed reset and replaced it with normalize
May 30, 2013 - (v1.0.3) Added 1.5 * font size line heights to headings and paragraphs
May 28, 2013 - Rename project to Ribs
May 17, 2013 - (v1.0.2) Travis CI build configuration, and minor refactor to remove as many of the warnings from CSSLint as was feasible to do - MAY CAUSE REGRESSIONS.
May 17, 2013 - (v1.0.1) Added grunt build tools
Apr 23, 2013 - (v1.0.0) Skeleton SCSS v1.0 - Additional variable conversions, changes based on feedback to the original project and bower submission.
Jan 31, 2013 - Completed SCSS conversion of Skeleton 1.2.

Contributers

Nick Pack
Ivo Bathke
Matthew Copeland
Miles Z. Sterrett
AtomicPages LLC
Toby Vervaart
Dave Gamache