That's what the shoes app is for - the idea is to create an application that's easy to distribute and use without requiring designers to touch Rubygems or Ruby. If you're interested in appealing to that group of people, I think that's where you should focus your effort.
Eric wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
