Comments on: Abstraction in CSS http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/04/30/abstraction-in-css What happens at LShift Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:49:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Silky http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/04/30/abstraction-in-css#comment-94212 Mon, 05 May 2008 03:48:35 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/04/30/abstraction-in-css#comment-94212 <p>And to be clear, I mean a language ontop of CSS is a good idea, not yet another annoying css-editing-ide.</p> And to be clear, I mean a language ontop of CSS is a good idea, not yet another annoying css-editing-ide.

]]> by: Silky http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/04/30/abstraction-in-css#comment-94211 Mon, 05 May 2008 03:44:09 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/04/30/abstraction-in-css#comment-94211 <p>Nice idea, I think. A pre-compiler for css would certainly be the best plan.</p> Nice idea, I think. A pre-compiler for css would certainly be the best plan.

]]> by: Liam Clancy (metafeather) http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/04/30/abstraction-in-css#comment-93863 Sat, 03 May 2008 13:10:50 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/04/30/abstraction-in-css#comment-93863 <p>Personally I have had great success with SASS - part of HAML and in common use in Ruby on Rails projects:</p> <p>http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/docs/rdoc/classes/Sass.html</p> <p>It has many of the attributes you mention, and can be run standalone for easy integration with projects in other languages, however its killer feature for me is to easily be able to refactor the specificity of an entire CSS tree easily in response to HTML changes and so make effective use of a kind of CSS namespacing - using top level HTML elements from which to start the cascade and prevent rules conflicts and style confusion as you touched on in your last article.</p> Personally I have had great success with SASS - part of HAML and in common use in Ruby on Rails projects:

http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/docs/rdoc/classes/Sass.html

It has many of the attributes you mention, and can be run standalone for easy integration with projects in other languages, however its killer feature for me is to easily be able to refactor the specificity of an entire CSS tree easily in response to HTML changes and so make effective use of a kind of CSS namespacing - using top level HTML elements from which to start the cascade and prevent rules conflicts and style confusion as you touched on in your last article.

]]> by: Ben Hood http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/04/30/abstraction-in-css#comment-93328 Thu, 01 May 2008 11:30:50 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/04/30/abstraction-in-css#comment-93328 <p>I really appreciated the succinctness of this comment: </p> <blockquote cite="mikeb">We can add the ability to express intent.</blockquote> <p>Thanks for making it such an enjoyable read.</p> <p>BTW, can you turn on comment previews in Wordpress?</p> I really appreciated the succinctness of this comment:

We can add the ability to express intent.

Thanks for making it such an enjoyable read.

BTW, can you turn on comment previews in Wordpress?

]]> by: tonyg http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/04/30/abstraction-in-css#comment-93164 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:19:22 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/04/30/abstraction-in-css#comment-93164 <p>Being able to abstract away from the details in CSS would be really useful. How about using something like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)" rel="nofollow">m4</a> as a preprocessor, to experiment with the kinds of extensions you're imagining? (Don't let m4's sendmail reputation mislead you - it's an elegant and useful general-purpose macro preprocessor language :-) )</p> Being able to abstract away from the details in CSS would be really useful. How about using something like m4 as a preprocessor, to experiment with the kinds of extensions you’re imagining? (Don’t let m4’s sendmail reputation mislead you - it’s an elegant and useful general-purpose macro preprocessor language :-) )

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