Preprocessing CSS

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/24/2016 02:03 PM, Thiez wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 17:14:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 05/24/2016 10:39 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>> On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 16:04:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Found this on reddit:
>>>> http://blog.00null.net/post/144763147991/using-gnu-m4-as-a-css-pre-processor.
>>>>
>>>> I found it interesting because I found it useful to preprocess our
>>>> style.css on dlang.org with ddoc. Somehow that got lost a while ago.
>>>> How can I find the rename style.css -> style.css.dd and then back on
>>>> github? Thx! -- Andrei
>>>
>>> I just want to throw out there that we would get more contributors to
>>> the website were it to use industry standard tools. i.e. Sass, Less,
>>> etc.
>>
>> That'd need to be balanced with dogfooding. -- Andrei
>
> Is ddoc intended to generate css?

Yes. Ddoc is a general preprocessing engine, much like m4 discussed in 
the article I mentioned.

> Do people who have experience with css
> have experience doing this with ddoc?

If they're D contributors they're likely familiar with ddoc, and 
applicability to css is trivial and immediate.

> Will experience in using ddoc for
> css generation help someone in projects other than D?

Probably not, but "experience" is misapplied here - we're talking about 
trivial application here.

> Does the
> experience help someone getting a job in the industry?

Probably not, again with the same caveat. I speculate experience with 
one of the other CSS scripting engines would also not be very helpful in 
landing a job as a software engineer.

> I'm pretty sure the answer to all of these answers is "no"

That's not the case, so the jury shall ignore the consequent :o).


Andrei