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Typeplater's POW WOW! #118

Closed grayghostvisuals closed 10 years ago

grayghostvisuals commented 11 years ago

@jhogue @Melindrea @zakkain @TommyCreenan

Ok everyone I hereby commence a POW WOW with the Typeplate team. A few things I'd like to note.

  1. I would like to introduce the new team members on our blog because contributors deserve just as much respect as the makers. Maybe a short bio would be good to give a sense of background?
  2. Each team member should have their profile image in the README like this one
  3. If you are on this team and do not have a sticker pack then what the hell are you doing? Give us your addy and Zak or I will send a bunch to you.

Other than those few quick notes I'd like to get a sense of where everyone is at. As you can see we have a few issues in the tracker that need addressing amongst other things. Maybe we can decide who wants to tackle what? Now let's kick this thing off! :metal:

Melindrea commented 11 years ago

Yay! I want more stickers for my laptop! Where/how should I give you my addy? Everything else I will hang back and add my input when I see a good place.

grayghostvisuals commented 11 years ago

@Melindrea WOOT! WOOT! You can send me your address to the typeplate twitter account. We should be able to direct message each other. I would say if you see something in the tracker you can tackle then go for it, but give everyone a heads up so we don't cross streams and start something someone else is already working on.

Melindrea commented 11 years ago

I do not appear to be able to DM Typeplate on Twitter.

Potentially I can look into adding #117 to the documentation? (though it might take a bit - stuff I do is in between travel/activity as I'm visiting family).

caycefischer commented 11 years ago

Hey all! Glad to see people interested in Typeplate behind the scenes!

I have some ideas for something like version 2 of Typeplate, mostly half-baked stuff right now, but I definitely want to get some opinions on stuff when I push up my experimental branch. One thing I'm working on is scoping everything behind a class or variable, so that we can further modularize Typeplate: kind of like this or this

jhogue commented 11 years ago

Hi all. I can send my address as well. I'll take a look at the issues to see if there is something I can poke with a stick.

Zachary: scoping with a .typeplate class makes sense. I already use .text for the prettier/fussier content styles on raw HTML elements like ul, figcaptions, dl, code, samp, pre, tables, etc...

All: Do you want to get at all into presenting a way to mark up a simple grid/column system? I use a series of containers to make very maintainable grids that are not as strict as typical frameworks. I have used Compass and Susy, which was great, but eventually I realized that I ended up tweaking the column-width math too often, and therefore not using Susy the way it was intended. I also got sick of using a .last class or nth-child to float the last elements right. So instead I have a simpler system of flexible column widths (%), fixed gutters (ems) and no more .last classes needed.

I can whip up a codepen if you are interested.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Zachary Kain notifications@github.comwrote:

Hey all! Glad to see people interested in Typeplate behind the scenes!

I have some ideas for something like version 2 of Typeplate, mostly half-baked stuff right now, but I definitely want to get some opinions on stuff when I push up my experimental branch. One thing I'm working on is scoping everything behind a class or variable, so that we can further modularize Typeplate: kind of like thishttp://dbushell.com/2012/04/18/scoping-typography-css/or this http://css-tricks.com/opt-in-typography/

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/typeplate/typeplate.github.io/issues/118#issuecomment-21151027 .

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Melindrea commented 11 years ago

@jhogue Personally, I'm not sure it's needed? I at least use either Golden Grid System (or, rather, a version thereof) when I get to choose, or one of the other gazillion (generally Bootstrap at work) frameworks for grids/columns.

If it's implemented I at least would want it to be something that can be incorporated rather than naturally is.

jhogue commented 11 years ago

Perfectly fine with me. Not trying to add clutter, just wondering. Everyone seems to create/modify an existing framework to fit their tastes it seems, anyway.

One finger-typed from my touchscreen who-ze-whatzit. On Jul 18, 2013 12:00 AM, "Marie Hogebrandt" notifications@github.com wrote:

@jhogue https://github.com/jhogue Personally, I'm not sure it's needed? I at least use either Golden Grid System http://goldengridsystem.com/(or, rather, a version thereof) when I get to choose, or one of the other gazillion (generally Bootstrap at work) frameworks for grids/columns.

If it's implemented I at least would want it to be something that can be incorporated rather than naturally is.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/typeplate/typeplate.github.io/issues/118#issuecomment-21161292 .

Melindrea commented 11 years ago

We're programmers/designers/developers. We are hard-coded to find our own tastes superior ;) On 07/18/2013 12:02 AM, J. Hogue wrote:

Perfectly fine with me. Not trying to add clutter, just wondering. Everyone seems to create/modify an existing framework to fit their tastes it seems, anyway.

One finger-typed from my touchscreen who-ze-whatzit. On Jul 18, 2013 12:00 AM, "Marie Hogebrandt" notifications@github.com wrote:

@jhogue https://github.com/jhogue Personally, I'm not sure it's needed? I at least use either Golden Grid System http://goldengridsystem.com/(or, rather, a version thereof) when I get to choose, or one of the other gazillion (generally Bootstrap at work) frameworks for grids/columns.

If it's implemented I at least would want it to be something that can be incorporated rather than naturally is.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/typeplate/typeplate.github.io/issues/118#issuecomment-21161292 .

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/typeplate/typeplate.github.io/issues/118#issuecomment-21161342.

grayghostvisuals commented 11 years ago

@jhogue yeah hit us with a DM and your addy on the typeplate twitter account. If you find something in the tracker you want to tackle just let everyone know so we don't step over something else already in progress. In regards to a grid system...I think that is an awesome idea, but I don't think grids are the name of the game here unfortunately :(

@zakkain I do like the scoped classes, but how will this affect compatibility with those using previous versions of this? I think it was fine in the last two releases to be sort of a cowboy with things, but now we have backwards compatibility to worry about...no?