Blueprint vs. YUI: A strong opinion, no. I fooled around with the YUI for a bit and felt it was all a bit opaque. With Blueprint, I grew into it. I didn’t use the whole framework right away, studying it first, adapting it for my own use, until eventually I finally used it for a quick little project that just had to get up fast. I really don’t feel like I could have gone on that journey with YUI.

… but at the same time: quit teasing us about that YUI-Sandbox and release it already! I’ve been waiting to see that forever, man!

Glad to have you drop by, Alister. I may have mentioned this before but it’s your blog theme that got me into Sandbox and I don’t mean to make you out to be Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything but thanks for that.

Cheers, mate.

Your readers might be interested in my recent talk at Melbourne Wordcamp regarding Sandbox. I’ll let you link to it somehow, if you think it’s worthy.

Perhaps needless to say for people who know me, but I don’t touch any other theme either.

Now, on the Blueprint question, I am sold on the YUI Grids/Reset/Fonts set of CSS files. Do you have any strong opinion about how these stack up to Blueprint? I have in mind my own fork of Sandbox integrated with YUI (Scott has suggested I fork it)… when I eventually polish it off.

Finally, I fully agree that Dean Edwards is a genius, even if he doesn’t reply to emails of blog comments. I use his Packer all the time.

As JS goes, I am in love with jQuery and was delighted to see WP dump Prototype for it, however I with plugin authors would get on with replacing their dependence on Prototype for jQuery. Especially Alex King!

Great blog, mate. You’re talking the stuff I’m passionate about (and I’m sure my site’s too busy for your eyes, much as I’ve tried to keep it visually clean!).

Cheers, -Alister

besides that, I think it’s pretty cool.