On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:53 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I personally think it'd be unfortunate for this current effort to > collapse > > over such considerations, but I'm obviously biased. > > > > Oh, I certainly agree. For my part, I'm satisfied that the > LESS/Sass/stylus issues have been adequately thought through (maybe some of > this can make it back into the RfC). The > http://leafo.net/lessphp/docs/#custom_functions stuff looks very > promising, > it probably should be explicitly mentioned in any "LESS for MW" docs we > write. I look forward to seeing the @import guidelines as well. > --scott Heartily agree as well. I alluded to this in my longer answer. Basically Stylus/SASS do seem to be slightly ahead of LESS but it's a vanishing difference and meaningLESS over the long term. > The biggest gains to be had from using a CSS > preprocessor tend to come from the most > basic features This I think is a most astute point from Ori. It's why I made the analogy to Coco. I don't and never will use any of the complicated crazy Coco constructs. But writing class LineNode extends TimeseriesNode instead of all the JS boilerplate for classes and inheritance is good. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
