Tripoli
Tripoli is a generic CSS standard for HTML rendering. By resetting and rebuilding browser standards, Tripoli forms a stable, cross-browser rendering foundation for your web projects. Tripoli completely resets all default browser standards and rebuilds them quietly with modern web development in mind.
Tripoli is not a CSS framework. It doesn't tell you how to code your web site. Instead, it forms a solid HTML rendering engine and a base for creating dynamic layouts without interfering with typographic measurements.
The ideas behind Tripoli (as originally published)
- Forming a generic standard for rendering HTML 4 tags
- Resetting and rebuilding all browser defaults for maximum compatibility
- Addressing deprecated tags in HTML 4 and disabling them through CSS
- Separating content typography from layout measurements for dynamic design environments
- Increasing readability and web typography
- Improving form usability and the visual appearance of form controls
- Embracing W3C guidelines and well-known typographic rules
- Allowing external plugs that extend generic defaults into more advanced themes
Tested down to Internet Explorer 5 in its day. The original sample pages
(sample.php and variants) redirect here. Tripoli was distributed under the
license noted in its stylesheet headers, which still reference
devkick.com/lab/tripoli/; those headers are the reason this archive exists.
Tripoli made browser rendering predictable; devkick now applies the same bias toward working systems to build nights where developers demo real projects.