Comments on: This Newbie’s First Impressions of Haml and Sass

By: Manage Your CSS3 Tricks with Sass Mixins | PatientsLikeMe Tech Blog

Manage Your CSS3 Tricks with Sass Mixins | PatientsLikeMe Tech Blog — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:01:55 +0000

[...] CSS3, I also continued my lovefest with Sass. A while back on my personal blog, I wrote up my first impressions of Haml & Sass (Haml is a markup language for generating HTML while Sass is a meta-language for [...]

By: Sassy-pants « My name is Joel

Sassy-pants « My name is Joel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:11:59 +0000

[...] won’t go into the syntatic sugar that makes Sass so much fun – John Long[1][2] and Adam Darowski have already done excellent jobs rounding up the high, and lower, level concepts and tricks. I [...]

By: Shawn K.

Shawn K. — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:31:01 +0000

Mmmm, I think I’m in the mood for pork.
Haml looks delicious, I’ve read about it before but your breakdown caught my attention.

Thanks!

By: Adam Darowski

Adam Darowski — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:38:29 +0000

Hey thanks, Kurt. And yes, once Safari 4 came out and adopted the full-page zoom, I noticed that as well. Some combination I’m using with keyword+percentage-based fonts and my layout just isn’t getting zoomed. I used the same approach for BatchBook & BatchBlue.com, so not terribly surprised. Thanks for the heads up!

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:42:52 +0000

Hey Adam, thanks for the write-up on Sass! I'm going to give the similar LESS a spin and see if it helps to take the pain out of managing CSS in our projects. One note about the CSS on darowski.com: When I zoom in on the page (using Chrome 4.0), the text does not zoom. Zooming seems to work OK in FireFox 3.5.7, though. Maybe a Chrome bug, but I thought I'd mention it. I've noticed similar behavior on some of the BatchBook / BatchBlue pages, as well.

By: Chris Bloom

Chris Bloom — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:49:15 +0000

Thanks for the answers. I’m about to start a new project and think I’ll give Haml/Sass a try.

I must admit I had to Google the Trammell reference. Figures it’s a baseball reference

By: Scott McCracken

Scott McCracken — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:38:33 +0000

I’ve been intrigued by Sass for a while, but admittedly haven’t really looked into it until your post. Great write-up, there are some excellent time-savers in there.

Also, the “…so well-rounded you could call it Alan Trammell.” quote didn’t go unappreciated

By: Adam Darowski

Adam Darowski — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:09:17 +0000

Thanks Mark! Yes, Chris… as Mark said…

+yes(4)

By: Mark Richman

Mark Richman — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:58:39 +0000

@Chris, 1) Yes. Yes. Yes. 2) Yes.

By: Chris Bloom

Chris Bloom — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:15:26 +0000

I never quite understood the benefit of mixins until now. Holy Carp!

Two questions:

1.) I’m guessing Sass is rendered out as a normal CSS file at some point, but is it cached? And if so, is there an option for outputting it in minified format? Is it smart enough to know when the original Sass file has changed and re-render a new cached file?

2.) In Haml, is there support for adding extra attributes to each tag?