> > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- >> boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of david >> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 3:12 PM >> To: css-d >> Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS3 animations considered harmful >> >> tedd wrote: >> > At 9:19 PM -0400 8/10/10, David Laakso wrote: >> >> Gabriele Romanato wrote: >> >>> Hi! >> >>> need some responses and criticisms about my opinions expressed >> >>> right >> >>> here: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/08/css3-animations- >> considered-harm >> >>> ful.html >> >>> >> >>> HTH ^^/ >> >>> >> >> > Gabriele Romanato >> >> >> >> >> >> CSS is a programming language: albeit, a very simple one. It copes >> >> with "look and feel." Expanding CSS to include more than that is >> >> scary. But therein may, or may not, lie the future. /Push the >> >> envelope./ >> >> >> >> Best, >> >> ~d >> > >> > I agree and was very close to responding as such. However, I didn't >> > think my contribution would amount to anything in that forum. >> > >> > In any event, people who say that CSS is not a programming language >> > must have a better understanding of programming than me -- after >> all, >> > I only wrote my first line of code 45 years ago and still haven't >> > mastered it. >> >> CSS isn't a programming language. No control constructs like >> IF/THEN/ELSEIF, SWITCH, etc. No variables. The only programming >> language presence really are the MS extensions (Javascript functions). >> > > I wish there were variables. Even variables of the macro kind for > defining a color palette would be really great. MAIN_COLOR = #123456; > > border-color: MAIN_COLOR; > color: MAIN_COLOR; > Want to change your main color from green to blue? Change one line! How > awesome would that be? But anyway... > > I think the lack of control structures is a little erroneous... the > entire language is a giant switch statement. If there's an element that > matches such and such, apply these properties... > > Switch (element) { > Case 'p': margin: 1em; > } > > We just leave the switch() case: out for brevity. :P > > Also, isn't it instructions for a computer? Isn't that the definition of > a programming language? I can understand HTML not being a language, as it > doesn't, by itself, cause anything to happen to the text (default styling > is CSS, after all). But CSS actually does stuff. > > ---Tim >
I push all my code, css, js, php through M4. this enables me to do exactly what you are asking for, and also have shared symbolic constants for return codes and such for json structures. It really helps. Peter ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
