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Thanks for the link. Definitely some good inspiration for future versions. I've never used it, any feedback on their syntax? I was planning on using a `space`

Thanks for the link. Definitely some good inspiration for future versions. I've never used it, any feedback on their syntax? I was planning on using a `space` instead of a `>` when I do inline hierarchy. Also, what is zero padding? (`li.item$$$`) edit: What is the purpose of zero padding?

calvin 14y ago
Zen coding syntax is fantastic, it makes generating HTML in my editor a breeze. Stick to ">". That's the standard CSS for indicating a child element. e.g. "div.myclass > h1" indicates a div with class "myclass" and a child h1 element. In zen, it outputs: <div class="myclass"> <h1></h1> </div> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#pattern-matching http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#pattern-matching
huxley 14y ago
There are probably several other use-cases, but the one I've run into was where there is a naive implementation of alphabetic sorting (basically character by character sorting), zero padding allows proper numerical sorting to work: 001 002 010 022 Instead of: 1 10 2 22 If you think you might have a thousand items, you'd probably zero pad by 3 digits. 0001 0010 0100 1000 1001 Edit: of course, one area you're guaranteed to have trouble with numerical sorting is when your number is prefixed by a letter. Zero-padding mitigates that problem: M001, M002, M020, M023.