Good point! I mentioned the PHP/.htaccess combo specifically because of its ease of use by the less technical. I'm thinking particularly of the barely-able-to-deploy-Wordpress designers out there. I'd love to get Sass into their hands. Guess I should write some code...
Is there an official grammar written up somewhere for Sass? On Oct 4, 2:09 am, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see the necessity for porting Sass to other languages. Unlike > Haml, it's not tightly integrated with Ruby, so the full effect can be > run using the command-line script. It should be reasonably easy to setup > a Sass module for Apache, although for efficiency it would probably be a > better idea to hand-compile it. > > Eric wrote: > > Oh happy day! This gives me the perfect reason to learn Shoes. > > > I must admit I'm a little late to the game, so I'll throw this one out > > there: Has anyone talked about bundling a PHP port of Sass with > > a .htaccess (for url rewriting) so that we can deploy Sass files > > directly to a webserver? The .htaccess would route the calls for .css > > files to the php script, which would then turn the Sass into CSS -- > > with caching of course. > > > In that same vein, has anyone written a version of Sass in a language > > other than Ruby? I've seen other similar projects (like Python's > > CleverCSS), but I believe their syntax is slightly different from > > Sass. > > > Cheers! > > > On Sep 27, 1:00 pm, Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> 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. > > >> logo.gif > >> 46KViewDownload > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
