I agree with Nathan. If a CSS author wanted to minimize CSS blocks, he would
have done it himself.
- M
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In general, I'm nervous about features that "shouldn't be turned on by
> default." It just seems like unnecessary feature bloat. Especially since
> this feature doesn't add any power... merging a block doesn't cause the
> result to change at all.
>
> I'm also confused why you'd want the CSS output to diverge so much from
> the Sass input. If it's clearer to write different body attributes in
> different places, then it'll probably be clearer to read it, too.
>
> Evgeny wrote:
> > Hail Haml/Sass users,
> >
> > Sass is becoming more and more powerful with each feature, it's
> > already way ahead from plain css and enables much more in the DRY
> > department. I have yet another suggestion for you to consider.
> >
> > * Minimizing css blocks
> >
> > It is quite common to see the same element described with more than
> > one block in css, for example one big list of font-descriptions for
> > all the elements, and another for layout (things like margins,
> > padding, etc). Currently Sass just outputs the blocks as-is and
> > creates a css file that has the same blocks in the same order.
> >
> > What if you could still write separate blocks for different logical
> > items (typography/layout/etc..) but get a merged block in css?
> >
> >
> > Example:
> >
> >
> > body
> > :font-family Arial
> > h1
> > :font-family Helvetica
> >
> > body
> > :background blue
> > :color yellow
> > h4
> > :color white
> >
> > body
> > :margin 0 auto
> > #content
> > :margin 0 auto
> >
> >
> >
> > Then when merged, there will be just one block for "body" in the css
> >
> > body {
> > font-family: Arial;
> > background: blue;
> > color: yellow;
> > margin: 0 auto;
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > Naturally something like this should not be turned on by default.
> > And I'd also love to hear if you think it's a complete waste of time
> > and obsolete even before starting to implement this ...
> >
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
> >
>
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