On 6 August 2010 09:19, Michael Snoyman
After looking into sass a little bit, I've decided I like it ;). I see the following benefits of implementing something sass-like in Haskell via quasi-quotation:
* Compile-time guarantee of well-formedness. * The speed benefits of blaze-builder. Of course, this will still be slower than serving a static file. * Ability to use the same Haskell variables for both Hamlet and CSS.
I've started a new repo on Github[1]; I'm tentatively calling the project "stylish".
This sounds pretty interesting. I wrote a Ruby tool called Stylish [1] a couple of years ago to solve a similar set of problems, and have occasionally wondered about rewriting it in Haskell. I look forward to seeing what you come up with. One potentially useful feature is generating code that requires browser prefixes (-webkit-border-radius etc.). There's also potential for generating minified versions of the code, concatenating multiple stylesheets etc.—it's a lot easier to do this stuff if you can programmatically manipulate the stylesheet at run-time. Embedding assets (graphics) as data URIs is another thing; have a look at how something like Jammit [3] does this. There's also a Firefox and Thunderbird extension [2] called Stylish. Obviously you're free to call your project whatever you wish; I just thought I should let you know. Benedict. [1] http://ionfish.github.com/stylish [2] http://userstyles.org/stylish [3] http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/#embedding