Hi Steve, I agree that the syntax is not the most important part of Sass, and I'd be very open for alternate suggestions as to how to structure the website (feel free to fork and hack on it; it's the sass-pages branch of the repo).
At the moment, though, I feel like it's appropriate to introduce the syntax first. This may change in the future when we add a CSS-like syntax, but right now I think jumping in to examples of nesting and variables and mixins without ever talking about why the curly braces are gone is going to confuse people. Again, though, if you can come up with a better way to do it, I'd love to see it. Same goes for anything on either the Haml or Sass website. - Nathan On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:07 AM, s.ross <[email protected]> wrote: > > Everyone-- > > Sass-lang is looking great (http://sass-lang.com). Nathan, congrats on > merging edge into stable. > > A comment on sass-lang. com: Just as I was a proponent of focus-on- > benefit for Compass, I feel similarly about Sass. Getting rid of > syntactic punctuators is (IMO) not the biggest advantage of Sass. But > it is the top thing under "Beauty." > > I'm a CSS lame-brain. The only thing that keeps me sane when I'm > juggling CSS, HTML and the interaction that makes the rules govern > display rendering of the DOM is the almost perfect symmetry between > Sass and Haml markup of them. That leaves me some brain cells to focus > on how the byzantine, quirky CSS rules might be interpreted to create > a certain effect. > > From my perspective, the second biggest deal with Sass is a tie > between its status as a language, complete with variables and mixins > (abstractions of functionality), and its ability to reduce repetition > through nesting (DRY syntax). While these may seem orthogonal, they > work out to be complementary when mixins are used to describe commonly > used patterns like sprites. > > There are lots of CSS pain points and Sass solves some of them. The > site doesn't (again, in my opinion) give as much insight into how and > why Sass does this as it might. It just looks like Yet Another Syntax. > > I hope this is helpful and not seeming overly critical. If there's a > way I can chip in and help, let me know. > > Steve > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
