I've used clevercss on a project recently, http://sandbox.pocoo.org/clevercss/ -- always been curious about HAML & SASS. Have you looked at clever? Does anyone know the advantages tradeoffs between them?
-Tom On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 20:31, Patrick Toal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just spent a couple of hours looking at Chris Eppstein's Compass > screencast, downloaded and installed compass (I'm glad ruby is > included with OSX, because the compass install was a no-brainer). I'm > now working through my new site design with compass. > > Sass is much nicer than dealing with CSS directly, and I think I'm > going to start using it for everything from now on. > > I'm elated with how much easier this is going to make many things > going forward. I'm looking forward to ditching classes like "span-20" > in my template code, and being able to use variable substitution > instead of find/replace. > > Thanks to the group for jogging my memory on this stuff. I never had > time to look into it before, but I wish I had done it sooner. > > Cheers, > Pat > > --- > Patrick Toal > [email protected] > > > > > On 2009-10-06, at 3:01 PM, John Debs wrote: > > > > > David, > > > > For what it's worth, the learning curve to get to where you currently > > are in CSS is tiny - it comes down to syntax differences. The more > > powerful features require learning new stuff, but it's all pretty > > straightforward. I can understand wanting to get the basics of the > > design down first before converting to Compass, but you may find it'll > > save you a lot of time if you use it as you go. > > > > On Oct 6, 1:15 pm, David Merwin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm open to doing it once this theme is done. The only thing that has > >> kept me from giving compass a run has been need to learn another > >> framework. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:05 AM, John Debs <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Has anyone given any thought to using Compass (http://wiki.github.com/ > >>> chriseppstein/compass) in conjunction with Pinax themes? I've > >>> considered implementing the default theme with Compass but wanted to > >>> know how much interest there would be and whether anyone had other > >>> input. > >> > >>> There are plenty of positive aspects to using Compass (semantic > >>> styles!) and maybe including .sass files in Pinax proper, only > >>> negatives I can think of are that the CSS files become very > >>> verbose (I > >>> don't look at Compass-generated CSS often, though, so I'm not sure > >>> whether it's helpful or confusing) and the .sass files add some > >>> clutter (although they sit in their own folder and those that don't > >>> need them can safely ignore them). > >> > >>> Your 2 cents welcome. > >> > >>> Some more info for those unconvinced or unfamiliar: > >>> http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2009/09/20/why-stylesheet-abstra > >>> ... > >> > >> -- > >> Dave Merwin > >> > >> > http://facebook.com/davemerwinhttp://twitter.com/davemerwinhttp://www.davemerwin.com > >> My Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/merwin > >> > >> Need a powerful communication and collaboration toolset? Ask me how > >> Google Apps can help. > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pinax Core Development" 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/pinax-core-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
