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Tuesday, March 30, 2010


Re: [Radiant-Dev] Compass in Core?

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I've included some of the modules form compass, but I am a little
picky on the kinds of things that I want included. I prefer that we
work out something custom for Radiant.

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:55 AM, [Square Talent] Dirk Kelly
<dirk.kelly@squaretalent.com> wrote:
> I pretty much use compass for clearfix, 960, stickyfooter and (in edge)
> rounded corners.
> Like Will said, it just means less code repetition. Could be just as useful
> to have them in modules (which I see is what John has done in his prototype)
> DK
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:40 PM, William Ross <will@spanner.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 29 Mar 2010, at 11:17, Mislav Marohnić wrote:
>>
>> > First of all, we should ask ourselves what does "Compass in core" mean
>> > for Radiant? It means that the admin interface is done using it. So until
>> > someone actually steps up and has a strong argument for using Compass for
>> > the admin UI (and actually does the work), I don't think Radiant will ship
>> > with Compass.
>>
>>
>> I don't see a need for all of compass in core, so I'd vote no too, but it
>> would be useful to offer a standard grid for more complex forms. I've been
>> experimenting with a sassified version of the 960 grid system in
>> sass/admin/_modules. It's quite compact, and being programmatic it has the
>> great advantage of working with whatever widths and margins you specify,
>> including percentages as well as pixel values.
>>
>> You can make a full-width 12-column grid very easily like this:
>>
>>        http://gist.github.com/349148
>>
>> It's a nice example of the sort of thing sass does well. The css original
>> is over 600 lines, and in the event calendar (which I'm just now converting
>> to 0.9) it means that most of the layout is as simple as this:
>>
>>      @import modules/_grid.sass
>>      p.title
>>        +grid(8)
>>      p.keywords
>>        +grid(4)
>>      p.description
>>        +grid(12)
>>
>> I haven't done many browser tests yet but it does seem worthwhile. Anyone?
>>
>> will
>>
>>
>>
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