CSS Meta-Language in Javascript
Languages and libraries
css preprocessor library
SHOW HN2010
10points
11comments
#122of 370 in 2010
Top 33%of 2010 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for mockups and consistent dynamic class styling
From 1 comment
That makes perfect sense. I really like that it changes the css for the entire class. This would have good applications for a mockup website, you could add elements, alter…
humblest_ever on HN
Objections
Style tag per selector may be wasteful and could hurt performance
From 1 comment
I suppose the trade-off is having a style tag for each selector, which seems wasteful, and I'm not sure of the effect on performance. Any benchmarks for a large-sized stylesheet…
electrichead on HN
Breaks without JavaScript enabled
From 1 comment
This is great. How are you licensing it? And what do you plan on for the cases where people have disabled JS?
humblest_ever on HN
Requests
Performance benchmarks for large stylesheets
From 1 comment
I suppose the trade-off is having a style tag for each selector, which seems wasteful, and I'm not sure of the effect on performance. Any benchmarks for a large-sized stylesheet…
electrichead on HN
Questions
What license is it under
From 1 comment
This is great. How are you licensing it? And what do you plan on for the cases where people have disabled JS?
humblest_ever on HN
Alternatives named
jQuery
From 1 comment
jQuery can act on future elements using the .live() function.
revorad on HN
LESS and Sass
From 1 comment