That's quite interesting -- however I'm skeptical of this: "Wouldn’t live processing lag? Not really. Two reasons for this. One: Less.js has been written from the ground up for great performance, so even browsers with poor JavaScript implementation should still run it very well (Less.js is about 40 times faster than the Ruby implementation—so suffice to say it’s a lot faster.). Two: On modern browsers that support HTML5, Less.js will cache the generated CSS on local storage, making subsequent page loads as fast as pure CSS."
Client-side optimization is a never-ending battle; browsers and PCs are slow. I'm strongly disinclined to do anything that would be aiding the enemy here, particularly when it is, in the end, just a matter of convenience. More philosophically, Less.js is doing something on every pageload that the server-side implementation of Less does once per deploy. That's a lot of extra work, even if it is distributed. Still interesting, though, thanks for the pointer. Mat On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 18:35, Daniel Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd suggest using Less.js. I've used it with Heroku and I'm pleased. > > LESS has now been re-implemented in JavaScript. What this means is you > no longer need Ruby, ASP or PHP (or access to the file system) to use > LESS, you just need a browser. Less.js is a JavaScript implementation > of LESS that’s run by your web browser. > > See > http://fadeyev.net/2010/06/19/lessjs-will-obsolete-css/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" 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/heroku?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" 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/heroku?hl=en.
