I want to read this post but will have to in the morning...the right margin is broken for the iPad...at least in portrait mode
My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.
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Re: My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.
#22I just started using LESS and if you're on a Mac, I highly recommend LESS.app[1] to work with. It will automatically compile your LESS into CSS whenever you save the document in any text editor. Edit and save a page like variables.less that's included in main.less? It will auto-compile main.less, and any other LESS files that include variables.less when you save it. [1] http://incident57.com/less/
Go one step further and get the excellent codekit: http://incident57.com/codekit/
It is an essential piece of software in my workflow.
Re: My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.
#23How does LESS compare to Google's Closure Stylesheets?
http://code.google.com/p/closure-stylesheets/
"Closure Stylesheets is an extension to CSS that adds variables, functions, conditionals, and mixins to standard CSS. The tool also supports minification, linting, RTL flipping, and CSS class renaming. "
Re: My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.
#24> It’s also extremely important to not keep your less.js file operating during production mode.
I'm curious about this. Is it more than just a minor performance hit?
Re: My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.
#25SASS/Compass produces more efficient CSS output.
See the @extend section here: http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/
(Disclaimer: none. I use both, depending on project.)
Re: My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.
#26I heard a speaker at a conference say that Sass covered a lot more of the weird CSS edge-cases than LESS, can anyone comment on the validity of that? I've used Sass in Rails but I wouldn't be opposed to checking out LESS if there was a compelling reason to.
Re: My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.
#27And what if we're using SASS?
i wrote an intro to SCSS a while back when i was learning it (http://pushkrajdole.com/blog/?p=4). i think, all that matters is what framework you're most comfortable with. Give LESS & SCSS a try when coding some real projects & see which one of them works for you.
Re: My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.
#28I was introduced to LESS earlier this year and loved it. When I had to rebuild my personal site this past month, I did it in LESS instead of CSS and probably cut my development time in half.
I'm never going to write raw CSS again.
I grabbed CodeKit, so I might try SASS the next time I'm building something on the web. I haven't really seen anything in the SASS vs. LESS shootouts that makes me go "dang I wish I could do that"; my CSS is relatively straightforward. Just having named colors, a couple color mixing functions, mixins, and nested syntax helped a LOT.
Re: My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.
#29I was introduced to LESS earlier this year and loved it. When I had to rebuild my personal site this past month, I did it in LESS instead of CSS and probably cut my development time in half. I'm never going to write raw CSS again. I grabbed CodeKit, so I might try SASS the next time I'm building something on the web. I haven't really seen anything in the SASS vs. LESS shootouts that makes me go "dang I wish I could d…
@extend is one of the killer features of Sass that other preprocessors don't have: http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex...
It's true selector inheritance that will change the way you author styles.
Re: My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.
#30> It’s also extremely important to not keep your less.js file operating during production mode. I'm curious about this. Is it more than just a minor performance hit?
That depends entirely on what you call minor. A lot of people on HN think that it's absolutely essential that a page loads and responds within a few milliseconds, because somehow subconsciously to users, it will make the site feel snappier, and thus better, and thus more worth paying for / sticking around on.
Compiling and running LESS on the fly in production might, besides the extended load time, increase the chances for a flash of unstyled content. If this makes you nervous, don't run LESS on the fly in production.