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Re:Less, a leaner CSS by carbon8 on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @11:45AM (#661983)
What you are describing would be closer to Sass vs Less, not Compass vs Less. Compass is a meta-framework built on Sass to make working with CSS frameworks much simpler, easier, cleaner and more flexible.

In your case, you don't use CSS frameworks at all, but you just want a few features that aren't in CSS, so Compass isn't what you'd be considering, Less or Sass would be.

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Re:Less, a leaner CSS by chriseppstein on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @01:48PM (#662179)
At least someone gets it ;-)
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Re:Less, a leaner CSS by 9oliYQjP on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @02:06PM (#662207)
If I don't want to use a framework like blueprint, and I actually prefer (in this context) the CSS syntax (e.g., braces et al) as opposed to HAML, then is compass still useful to me? That's what is (now) confusing to me given your replies to my original comment. My original criticism isn't of compass. It's just that if I don't like blueprint/YUI/960, then would it not be redundant to use compass?

Hopefully you don't take this personally. If I ever find myself required to use one of the above frameworks, they would probably be a lot more palatable when used in conjunction with compass.

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