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

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