I just spent a couple of hours looking at Chris Eppstein's Compass screencast, downloaded and installed compass (I'm glad ruby is included with OSX, because the compass install was a no-brainer). I'm now working through my new site design with compass.
Sass is much nicer than dealing with CSS directly, and I think I'm going to start using it for everything from now on. I'm elated with how much easier this is going to make many things going forward. I'm looking forward to ditching classes like "span-20" in my template code, and being able to use variable substitution instead of find/replace. Thanks to the group for jogging my memory on this stuff. I never had time to look into it before, but I wish I had done it sooner. Cheers, Pat --- Patrick Toal [email protected] On 2009-10-06, at 3:01 PM, John Debs wrote: > > David, > > For what it's worth, the learning curve to get to where you currently > are in CSS is tiny - it comes down to syntax differences. The more > powerful features require learning new stuff, but it's all pretty > straightforward. I can understand wanting to get the basics of the > design down first before converting to Compass, but you may find it'll > save you a lot of time if you use it as you go. > > On Oct 6, 1:15 pm, David Merwin <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm open to doing it once this theme is done. The only thing that has >> kept me from giving compass a run has been need to learn another >> framework. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:05 AM, John Debs <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone given any thought to using Compass (http://wiki.github.com/ >>> chriseppstein/compass) in conjunction with Pinax themes? I've >>> considered implementing the default theme with Compass but wanted to >>> know how much interest there would be and whether anyone had other >>> input. >> >>> There are plenty of positive aspects to using Compass (semantic >>> styles!) and maybe including .sass files in Pinax proper, only >>> negatives I can think of are that the CSS files become very >>> verbose (I >>> don't look at Compass-generated CSS often, though, so I'm not sure >>> whether it's helpful or confusing) and the .sass files add some >>> clutter (although they sit in their own folder and those that don't >>> need them can safely ignore them). >> >>> Your 2 cents welcome. >> >>> Some more info for those unconvinced or unfamiliar: >>> http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2009/09/20/why-stylesheet-abstra >>> ... >> >> -- >> Dave Merwin >> >> http://facebook.com/davemerwinhttp://twitter.com/davemerwinhttp://www.davemerwin.com >> My Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/merwin >> >> Need a powerful communication and collaboration toolset? Ask me how >> Google Apps can help. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pinax Core Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pinax-core-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
