CSS Frameworks like 960 and Blueprint?

Question

This is at the framework level, not dealing directly with CSS, so posting to SO.

I just learned about the existence of CSS frameworks. 960 Grid System seems pretty awesome, then I found Blueprint, which seems to do the same thing and more.

Is there a better word than "framework" to categorize this?

Are there any other products in this category?
In response to one of the comments http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1483565/link-to-a-site-designed-using-a-css-framework-blueprint-960-etc, "how many example frameworks do you want? he just listed two of them.", I'd love to have more than two examples, unless those are the only two in the running.

• Blueprint, which is "the original CSS framework"
• 960 Grid System, which is a tool to have a grid underlying your screen.
• YUI 2: Grids, similar to 960? The rest of YUI is more similar to JQuery?
• YAML: Yet Another Multicolumn Layout, is what it says on the tin. Has the most SO results.
• Elements, which also focuses somewhat on your work process.
• Tripoli.
• A CSS Framework.

Answer 1

I think the word "framework" is okay to use here because it denotes a collection of useful, reusable components that abstract away the repetitious and error-prone aspects of a project and allow you, the developer, to focus on the task at hand.

Traditionally a framework is an programming API (which these CSS frameworks are not) so you could be pedantic and say that these CSS foundations are not frameworks.

Answer 2

Seems like "framework" in this case is more like a "scaffold" used in construction, and less like an actual programming MVC setup.

Answer 3

Here are a few more for your list

http://elements.projectdesigns.org/

http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/

http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/a-css-framework

Answer 4

Look at Elastic CSS Framework. Its main feature is that you are not enforced to have exactly N columns.

Answer 5

There are also: The Golden Grid

Emastic - CSS Framework

Malo - CSS Framework