Haml & Sass 3 Beta Release

http://nex-3.com/posts/94-haml-sass-3-beta-released

by chriseppstein • 16 years ago

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toisanji• 16 years ago

I actually love sass the way it is currently, what benefits does this new syntax have for previous users of sass? I see how this new syntax could maybe help new users since it is more aligned with regular css. What I am most interested in is support for sass to minimize duplicated sass/css. Sass is great because it allows for semantic css styling where you include mixins of common css, but that increases the size of the css. What would be great if sass allows us to write semantically, but when you deploy, it should minimize the css.

carbon8• 16 years ago

what benefits does this new syntax have for previous users of sass?

Single line declarations are a huge one.

Jasber• 16 years ago

These syntax changes move Sass closer to things web developers are familiar with.

I believe renaming !variable to $variable is more intuitive for most web developers.

Also I've made the mistake multiple times of forgetting to use an equal sign rather than a colon.

These weren't show stoppers but they added extra complexity to an elegant solution.

I'm excited about the new changes.

aaronbrethorst• 16 years ago

it does support minification of CSS in production. See: http://beta.sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.ht... and http://beta.sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.ht...

chriseppstein2• 16 years ago

Sass users will enjoy the following features:

  * No more = needed to use SassScript
  * $ instead of ! for variables
  * Support for CSS identifiers. E.g. solid instead of "solid"
  * Dashes can be used in place of underscores in variable names and sass functions.

There are a number of features planned for Sass 3.2 and beyond that address your other concerns, but Sass needed better infrastructure to do those. We have that now so we can go full steam ahead on new features. Expect the following in future releases:

  * Defining custom functions in Sass
  * Keyword arguments to mixins and maybe functions.
  * Support for a new directive called @extend
    that implements selector inheritance.
  * Optimizing compiler
  * Support for new core datatypes like List and Null

chriseppstein2• 16 years ago

Downvoted; really? What part of this reply was uninformative or offensive or off topic? FWIW, I'm one of the developers of Sass: http://nex-3.com/posts/78-chris-eppstein-joins-sass-team

Semiapies• 16 years ago

Interesting changes. I like less, but probably time to give Sass a second look.

riobard• 16 years ago

Three months ago I wrote a little piece of rant about Less vs. Sass here (https://riobard.com/blog/2009-12-18-less-vs-sass/). The day after I posted it, Nathan Weizenbaum (author of Sass) emailed me saying those tiny problems will be fixed. Now they delivered it. Time to give it another try!

Haml & Sass 3 Beta Release

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