http://groups.google.com/group/lesscss/browse_thread/thread/3939f16cbfc4472b?hl=en#
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Sid Bachtiar<[email protected]> wrote: > I guess my question was wrong, of course you can achieve it with plain > CSS, because even LESS generate plain CSS. > > When you're using a library/framework, the idea is that you don't > modify the core like in your solution, but rather, re-use the > components in your project. > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:04 PM, craiganz<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi. >> There may be 3 lines of code in both incantations of the previous >> example, but you'll note there are actually more tokens (keywords/ >> constants/etc.) when using LESS than when using plain CSS. >> You'll also find the plain CSS re-factoring of your current example >> (below) will also also result in no more code than if using LESS. >> LESS is not less it's just different or more. The plain CSS coding >> style is also more suited to environments where colour and/or font- >> family changes are user-configurable -- while you could do the same >> using the LESS coding style you've presented, it simply wouldn't be as >> clean a solution. On top of it, LESS just adds more stuff to the >> build processes that needs to be maintained. >> >> HTML: >> <div class="sidebar-left"></div> >> >> CSS: >> .span-4, .sidebar-left { >> /* just existing .span-4 CSS */ >> } >> >> .last, .sidbar-left { >> /* just existing .last CSS */ >> } >> >> .sidebar-left { >> margin: 0px; >> padding: 10px; >> } >> >> ------ >> -Craig >> >> On Aug 3, 3:07 pm, Sid Bachtiar <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I would like to know if anyone knows how to achieve that just by using >>> plain CSS. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Blue Horn Ltd - System Development > http://bluehorn.co.nz > -- Blue Horn Ltd - System Development http://bluehorn.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
