Scott L. Burson wrote: > Hi all, > > As we probably all know, CSS as a language has its limitations, > notably the complete absence of any abstraction mechanisms. I've been > meaning to check out some CSS compilers, but haven't yet. > > But in the course of fiddling with my site the other day, I > experimented with some layout by just supplying :STYLE attributes > inside WITH-HTML, rather than by assigning classes and adding clauses > to the CSS files. > > And then it struck me. Why do we Weblocks users need CSS files at > all? We're generating the HTML anyway -- why don't we generate the > styles at the same time? We would have all the abstraction > capabilities of Common Lisp at our fingertips and we wouldn't need to > earn yet another language. > > Basically everything in Weblocks that generates HTML would call a new > method to get the style for each element. I haven't started to work > out all the details, but doesn't this sound like a good idea?
I've been planning this for a long time. It's not hard and incredibly useful, and the current CSS files are a mess. Go ahead and I might just jump in developing. It's good to have more than one person doing serious work on Weblocks again. :) Also, sorry for not merging your accumulated heap of patches yet. It's definitely on my TODO. Leslie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weblocks" 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/weblocks?hl=en.
