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Separation, Abstraction, and Cascading in CSS

Sat 29 Dec 2012 12:29:33 AM CST

LESS and Sass (and similar solutions) have saved CSS for three reasons: separation, abstraction, and cascading. While I welcome them, CSS still has other problems which I believe can be solved.

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CSS has Weak Forms of Abstraction and Combination

Sat 08 Feb 2014 01:44:44 PM CST

According to the requirements proposed by Abelson and Sussman, CSS does not provide adequate means of combination and abstraction to be considered a powerful language.

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LESS has Better Forms of Abstraction than CSS

Wed 12 Feb 2014 10:16:42 PM CST

LESS has obviously better forms of abstraction and combination than CSS. It has recursive style definitions, which is enough to consider it a "powerful language".

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Pre-West Prep: Priyatam Mudivarti

Sat 04 Apr 2015 10:54:48 PM CDT

Priyatam Mudivarti will talk about generating CSS with Garden.

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Separation of Presentation and Content

Thu 17 Apr 2014 01:56:15 PM CDT

One reason to separate style from content is to reuse HTML or CSS. Ultimately, we would like a solution where we can reuse both.

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