I'd like to start by thanking everyone here in the Haml community for the help with Sass. When I came up withSass it was obviously the right thing to do to bundle it with Haml, because of the great community we have here and it allowed us to share innovations between the two languages. You guys have done an *amazing* job of taking Sass from a small improvement over CSS to an entire styling language itself.
I am humbled and amazed at the great ideas and work that have come from all of you. And, when reading the recent posts and conversations about Sass, I realized that it was time to implement Phase 2 of Sass. Ever since I first had the idea, I knew that it would be a fantastic language *outside* of the Ruby/Rails/Merb communities. There are thousands of CSS developers out there still dealing with a really simple language in CSS and could really use some of the tools we have developed here with Sass. Moving into the future, Sass is becoming more of its own project. Its not going to be ripped out of Haml completely until Haml 3.0 or so (just to make it easy with your Haml projects), but the two languages are parting ways fundamentally at this point. Obviously, we wouldn't get much done if we just kept Sass as a regular gem and required all of the Ruby-fu to use it... so, I have created a GUI for Sass in Shoes. Which means that we can release desktop applications for OS X, Linux, and Windows that include the Ruby interpreter and a nice interface for updating and working with Sass. The basic idea is that a CSS developer would launch the Sass app... then point it at a Sass file on their system and the application would bond to that Sass file (or soon, directory of them) and start pumping out CSS files whenever a Sass file is modified. Its what Sass does with Rails/Merb automatically without needing to use those frameworks. I have a prototype working that is ugly and I need your help to make it *awesome*. With open source development... you can't do it alone. http://github.com/hcatlin/sass/tree/master Viola! Its a really, really, really basic app right now. Branch and modify as you will! I think this is going to be a huge hit and once its ready for the wild I'm going to go attend every CSS conference I can find to pimp this baby. Finally, there is a new google group for Sass. http://groups.google.com/group/sass-lang Alright guys, you behind me on all of us ganging up on the shitty world of CSS development and making it rock? -hampton. PS: Check out the new Logo for Sass... ! I'm still tracking down the original font for the Haml logo... that will be changed to match exactly. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" 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/haml?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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