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Woah. CSS variables look like compiler flags. There goes the W3C reinventing the wheel when Sass, Less and others have already laid out how to assign variables
by rubiquity 12y ago
Woah. CSS variables look like compiler flags. There goes the W3C reinventing the wheel when Sass, Less and others have already laid out how to assign variables just fine for years.
- gavinpc 12y agoAs other posts have stated, CSS variables are not the same thing as preprocessor variables. Specifically, they cascade. A preprocessor cannot possibly implement CSS variables with cascading because it the value is resolved against a live context. In other words, you can actually change the variable at runtime with rules that target different selectors. As such, the "variables" are in fact functions.