On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Benedict Eastaugh <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 6 August 2010 09:19, Michael Snoyman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > After looking into sass a little bit, I've decided I like it ;). I see > the > > following benefits of implementing something sass-like in Haskell via > > quasi-quotation: > > > > * Compile-time guarantee of well-formedness. > > * The speed benefits of blaze-builder. Of course, this will still be > slower > > than serving a static file. > > * Ability to use the same Haskell variables for both Hamlet and CSS. > > > > I've started a new repo on Github[1]; I'm tentatively calling the project > > "stylish". > > This sounds pretty interesting. I wrote a Ruby tool called Stylish [1] > a couple of years ago to solve a similar set of problems, and have > occasionally wondered about rewriting it in Haskell. I look forward to > seeing what you come up with. > > One potentially useful feature is generating code that requires > browser prefixes (-webkit-border-radius etc.). There's also potential > for generating minified versions of the code, concatenating multiple > stylesheets etc.—it's a lot easier to do this stuff if you can > programmatically manipulate the stylesheet at run-time. Embedding > assets (graphics) as data URIs is another thing; have a look at how > something like Jammit [3] does this. > > As far as the border-radius kind of stuff: the approach I'm taking to mixins should make it possible to write a plain old Haskell function to output multiple border-radius statements. I might even include such a mixin in the main package. Regarding concatenating stylesheets: I believe that would have to be handled at the level *above* Stylish; Yesod, for example, automatically concatenates all style statements added via the addStyle function. There's also a Firefox and Thunderbird extension [2] called Stylish. > Obviously you're free to call your project whatever you wish; I just > thought I should let you know. > > I'm open to naming suggestions. Here's a few other ideas I'd had: * sasslet: I don't really like too much, but makes clear the connection to Hamlet and Sass. * csser/cssar: pronounced "Caesar," might give Shakespeare fans something to chuckle at. As it stands, I'm leaning fairly strongly towards including Stylish in the Hamlet package. Michael
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