@ getting a little redundant with nesting

[patbrown]

Not a terminal issue, but a touch on the annoying side. I've been porting a few libraries to cssgen, because I prefer to write clojure code over Ruby. I'm running into a redundancy issue with parsing @

For instance
["@Keyframes flash"
["0%, 50%, 100%" :opacity :1]
["25%, 75%" :opacity :0]]

Becomes
@Keyframes flash {

} @Keyframes flash 0%, @Keyframes flash 50%, @Keyframes flash 100% {
opacity: 1;
}
@Keyframes flash 25%, @Keyframes flash 75% {
opacity: 0;
}

I understand the way nesting is designed in CSSGen and for most instances it is perfect, but in the event of designing responsive sites or utilizing CSS3 features it creates a lot of unnecessary bloat.

If I can figure out an elegant solution, I'll send you a pull. Right now my work-around is too jank.

[paraseba]

Thanks for reporting this, it's very interesting.
Do you have any idea for a better syntax that covers this case?
Please, if you make any changes, start with the 0.3.0 branch.

I'll try to look into this during the next days.

Thanks again

[patbrown]

I'm working on the 0.3.0. I'm pleased with my setup. Currently, I have defined my own functions "css-container" and "css-container-close" They basically print the selector in a string and spit with an open bracket, close closes.

I've got a convenience function for declaring spit on a comment line at the top of the page labeling the subject of the file. I then use append on every consequential spit by default. The spits in the page all default to a folder "raw" in the cwd and the file-name is the namespace of the clj file creating them. I then reference the namespaces with another spit to concat my files into one. Not a slick as I'd like, but getting there, minification is possible with some simple regex, but I haven't felt the need yet.

I've also come up with a way to make animations, color-schemes, and a few other css3 goodies extremely functional from within css-gen. It needs to be slimmed down big time, it'll be a week or so, before I feel comfortable releasing. Let me know what you think about incorporating an animation, color tools, etc set of libraries. Otherwise, they work fine as plugins.