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oocss
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stubbornella / oocss

oocss

Object Oriented CSS Framework

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What it is

Object Oriented CSS Framework

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-09-28 21:30:26 UTC to 2012-05-06 02:11:40 UTC.

0123452010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 20102010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 20112011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 2012

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 20102010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20102010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 20102010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20102010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Feb 20112011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Mar 20112011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20112011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20112011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20112011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Jul 20112011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20112011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20112011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20112011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20112011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20112011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jan 20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20122012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20122012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20122012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
#OOCSS Look into oocss folder for more informations
Read the full README on GitHub

What Hacker News says

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huckfinnaafb·Feb 16, 2012
Some issues... Even using the grid normally, it ends up using more horizontal space than on the viewport, forcing a horizontal scrollbar (Chrome 18). Another problem: setting max-widths on units. Any proceeding units are handicapped by this and often just leave empty space to the right. I also don't like the presence of three sets of classes when two would be appropriate. "ingrid" as the container, and "span-x" for each column division. And this is unavoidable, as you need to define "in-[parts]" in the container to even use the span-x classes. I understand that it's less work if you stick to equal parts, but this is not the majority use case in my experience. I find the naming scheme awkward. "in-twos" and "in-thirds" instead of "in-halves" or "in-threes". Keep it consistent. --- All in all, I wouldn't recommend this to my mother. I use N
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icole Sullivan's snippet in her github project, https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/blob/master/core/grid/... (demo: http://oocss.org/grids_docs.html) And it's been damn bullet proof, being used in production code.
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