On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Huw Wilkins <huw.wilk...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi Launchpadders, > > In Dublin I spoke briefly about LESS CSS ( http://lesscss.org/). There were > positive noises then and I now want to make a decision about whether we > adopt it. > > As a recap, with LESS you can do things like variables, class inheritance > (with optional parameters - called mixins), maths (useful for spacing, > widths etc.) and a bunch of other useful things. > > One of the great things with LESS is that you can just write standard CSS > and use whatever LESS features you want, if or when you want them (this is > quite the opposite of something like coffeescript which is essentially a > whole new language). Should we ever change our mind the process of removing > LESS and rewriting our CSS would be trivial. > > LESS can be compiled server side or rendered client side by a JS file that > is included on the HTML page. As we already have a compile step it should be > straight forward to include LESS in that process. > > Personally I am in favour of using LESS. I have used it on some personal > projects and found it very helpful. Repetition of code is one of CSS's big > issues and LESS helping you define things once. > > Let me know your thoughts, otherwise I will look at implementing this soon. > > Cheers,
Less looks quite nice. Implementation wise we don't have node.js on the servers at the moment. I suggest testing it and if its fast enough in 'client side mode' just using that for now (perhaps file a high priority bug for us to permit server side handling in the future). -Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
