CSS, although a very cool and powerful language, leaves a lot to be desired in one key area: abstraction. Not coincidentally, this is the area that Sass is best

CSS, although a very cool and powerful language, leaves a lot to be desired in one key area: abstraction. Not coincidentally, this is the area that Sass is best at. Chris Eppstein has an excellent blog post (http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2009/09/20/why-stylesheet-abstraction-matters/ http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2009/09/20/why-styleshe...) explaining why abstraction in stylesheets matters.