{"issue":{"created_at":"2011-11-18T02:27:38Z","state":"open","updated_at":"2011-12-09T11:00:38Z","comments":14,"user":{"gravatar_id":"ffe68d6f71b225f7661d33f2a8908281","id":39191,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/paulirish","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ffe68d6f71b225f7661d33f2a8908281?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","login":"paulirish"},"body":"It'd be better for us to author the styles in scss. \r\n\r\nWe can still host the css in the repo for newbs that can't be bothered with a `compass compile` step\r\n\r\n#### overall advantages:\r\n\r\n* easier for most authors to begin scaling their styles\r\n* better authoring experience\r\n* integrated error checking\r\n* don't need to rewrite everything (like a Sass dialect would require)\r\n\r\n#### individual advantages\r\n\r\n* hotpink color could be a variable\r\n* `:selection` styles DRYd up\r\n* box-sizing mixin for `input[type=search]`\r\n* probably something very clever with our nonsemantic helper classes\r\n* _probably more than i'm missing_\r\n\r\n#### disadvantages\r\n\r\n* one more step. (not if you're using livereload, codekit, etc)\r\n* double file checkin for css changes (not that they happen often)","assignee":null,"id":2276314,"pull_request":{"patch_url":null,"html_url":null,"diff_url":null},"labels":[{"name":"css","color":"DC5B23","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/labels/css"}],"number":857,"title":"rewrite project css as scss","closed_at":null,"html_url":"https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/857","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/857","milestone":null},"action":"created","comment":{"created_at":"2011-12-09T11:00:38Z","updated_at":"2011-12-09T11:00:38Z","user":{"gravatar_id":"f3c9fe102a19a2c7ff238cdb9f13c9fa","id":202614,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/lhwparis","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f3c9fe102a19a2c7ff238cdb9f13c9fa?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","login":"lhwparis"},"body":"i think you should ask the community about scss vs less. there is NO js implementation for sass so you are dependent on the ruby compiler. think this is not good for the boilerplate. less could be dynamically compiles with less.js compiler or built into build-script with node.js","id":3077670,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/comments/3077670"}}