On 1/09/2011 7:31 PM, Tim Dawson wrote:
On 31/08/2011 17:34, Kevin A. Cameron wrote:
The talk was interesting, but the camera work poor. Too much
presenter, it was difficult to see the slides.
Did anyone catch what she talking about towards the end; it sounded
like 'pre-' something.
Tim
On 31/08/2011 19:00, Kevin A. Cameron wrote:
I'm guessing that was preprocessors, the likes of LESS or SASS.
Kevin
Thanks, Kevin. That would be unknown territory for me at present. I
expect I'll have to go there eventually.
Tim
http://sass-lang.com/
| Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an
| extension of CSS3, adding nested rules,
| variables, mixins, selector inheritance,
| and more. It’s translated to well-formatted,
| standard CSS using the command line tool or
| a web-framework plugin.
I myself just love to code raw CSS or CSS3. The only processor I use is
my brain.
On a CSS note, a mutated version of SASS was on the verge of being added
to CSS3 [1] until I started considering the parsing nightmare of such
CSS and objected [2]. The reason being is that UAs parse CSS in many
different ways. One such test series.
http://css-class.com/test/css/parsing/escapes.htm
That is just using escapes. It is far worse with other CSS tokens and to
change the rules of CSS parsing when such UAs are so fragile would do
much damage to CSS and backward compatibility.
1. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jun/0022.html
2. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Mar/0553.html
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Alan Gresley
http://css-3d.org/
http://css-class.com/
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