Dojo started using the LESS CSS framework with their 1.6 release. I 
haven't had a chance to play with it, but it might be a good idea to 
compare LESS/SASS.
http://lesscss.org/

On 05/10/2011 09:33 AM, Gary Thompson wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I heard about SASS (http://sass-lang.com/) not long ago, and had an 
> opportunity to use it in the recent uPortal Mobile work. In my 
> opinion, SASS is CSS Awesome. It is everything that CSS development 
> should be, and makes CSS truly programmatic with things like 
> variables, mixins, loops, and functions. I will be using SASS for all 
> my future CSS development. I'd like to recommend using SASS for 
> uPortal CSS development.
>
> Impacts to uPortal:
>
> For front-end developers, an uptake of SASS. Source code "CSS" would 
> be done in SASS. SASS exports to pure CSS, which would be the uPortal 
> skins. SASS runs on Ruby. CSS development and maintenance becomes 
> *much* easier.
>
> For portal adopters, the impact is probably nothing. Adopters would be 
> working with the resultant CSS file (and likely never interface with 
> SASS), and any customizations to a skin would be done in the same 
> manner as before.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Gary
>
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