Tim Climis wrote:
> How is this faster? If I do it the normal way,
> I write the markeup, and I add the styles. I get
> to skip the step of copying the same markup,
> and removing all the content.
Well, say you're writing a small widget with a few nested divs:
<div id="result-box">
<div class="title"></div>
<div class="url-box">
<div class="url"></div>
<div class="button-star-url">star</div>
</div>
</div>
To write the CSS for that, you would have to write all the selectors
(#result-box, #result-box .title, etc) by hand. With HCSS, you can
simply copy over that same HTML structure, and add styles:
<div id="result-box">
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000;
<div class="title">
padding: 5px;
</div>
<div class="url-box">
!clear-floats;
<div class="url">
float: left;
width: 75%;
</div>
<div class="button-star-url">
float: left;
width: 20%;
border: 1px solid #000;
</div>
</div>
</div>
I think for most people writing (and maintaing all these selectors) by
hand has become second-nature that they don't even care. I never cared
either. But I've been working on a huge HTML/JS app and many complex
widgets and micro interactions between nested divs, and decided to try
building something to make it easier. So far it has been really making
it a lot easier to maintain/evolve the code.
But I'll withdraw my claim that "it's just faster" in any case. YMMV indeed :)
-- Jonas
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