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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Huw Wilkins <huw.wilkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Launchpadders,
>
> In Dublin I spoke briefly about LESS CSS ( http://lesscss.org/). There were
> positive noises then and I now want to make a decision about whether we
> adopt it.
>
> As a recap, with LESS you can do things like variables, class inheritance
> (with optional parameters - called mixins), maths (useful for spacing,
> widths etc.) and a bunch of other useful things.
>
> One of the great things with LESS is that you can just write standard CSS
> and use whatever LESS features you want, if or when you want them (this is
> quite the opposite of something like coffeescript which is essentially a
> whole new language). Should we ever change our mind the process of removing
> LESS and rewriting our CSS would be trivial.
>
> LESS can be compiled server side or rendered client side by a JS file that
> is included on the HTML page. As we already have a compile step it should be
> straight forward to include LESS in that process.
>
> Personally I am in favour of using LESS. I have used it on some personal
> projects and found it very helpful. Repetition of code is one of CSS's big
> issues and LESS helping you define things once.
>
> Let me know your thoughts, otherwise I will look at implementing this soon.
>
> Cheers,

Less looks quite nice.

Implementation wise we don't have node.js on the servers at the
moment. I suggest testing it and if its fast enough in 'client side
mode' just using that for now (perhaps file a high priority bug for us
to permit server side handling in the future).

-Rob