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Alright, I have to ask: Why use a preprocessor for HTML but not styles? Intentionally breaking development tools seems like a dead end, the only use-case I can
by r0s 14y ago
Alright, I have to ask:
Why use a preprocessor for HTML but not styles?
Intentionally breaking development tools seems like a dead end, the only use-case I can imagine is client side manipulation; and then javascript has you covered by a huge legacy.
- alanh 14y agoHey, not trying to be a jerk here, but I am an experienced web developer who loves Compass and CoffeeScript and spends hours in dev tools daily, so I feel like I should understand your comment, but I simply cannot understand what you are asking. At all. Consider re-phrasing?
- mappu 14y agoMaybe he means writing css in PHP and serving it as text/css. That does give you pretty good flexibility.. you have to pay a little more attention to caching compared to static (/compiled) .css files though.
- r0s 14y agoOh sorry, I mean why not do the server side work with PHP or whatever on the back end, or javascript on the front end? By breaking existing tools I mean Firebug or whatever else is viewing the compiled styles.