what is different from what Joel already did?

I think Joel was asking for input to help develop garden further it would 
be great to see efforts go into one thing - unless you have really 
divergent ideas....

Dave


On Friday, 11 April 2014 01:07:47 UTC+10, frye wrote:
>
> Zengarden is a riff on Joel Holdbrooks' excellent 
> garden<https://github.com/noprompt/garden>library. Zengarden is a simple tool 
> for generating CSS in Clojure. The goal 
> is to cover most of 
> CSS3<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS3>. 
> The spirit of the library is to have declarative syntax, and be 
> controllable from edn. Github <https://github.com/twashing/zengarden> and 
> Clojars <https://clojars.org/zengarden> resources are in the expected 
> locations. 
>
> This is an alpha release, so there's a lot of TODOs, and stuff that I 
> haven't thought of. I've just built it for my own use case(s). When that 
> happens, you can *i)* input raw CSS *ii)* send me feature requests or 
> *iii)* send me a pull request. These are some things you get out of the 
> box. 
>
>    - nesting syntax
>    - declarative, controllable from edn 
>    - @import <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@import>
>     calls 
>    - @media <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media>
>     queries 
>    - namespaces<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@namespace>
>     
>    - pass in raw CSS 
>
>
> I'm in the process of doing these other things. Pass in raw CSS, in lieu 
> of.
>
>    - pretty-printed or compressed output 
>    - inlined styling (for style attributes)
>    - selectors (incl. *i.* attribute 
> selectors<http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors3/#attribute-selectors>(ex: 
> div[foo^="bar"]) 
>    *ii.* combinators <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors3/#combinators> 
>    *iii.* parent selectors )
>     - pseudo-elements (incl. pseudo-element functions (ex: div:lang(fr)))
>    - @charset <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@charset>, 
>    @supports <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@supports>, 
>    ( @page <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@page>, 
>    @document <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@document>, 
>    @font-face<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face>and 
>    @keyframes<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@keyframes>, 
>    not implemented; most are still experimental ) 
>
>
> Please note that.
>
>    - Zengarden makes no attempt to validate your CSS. it just knows how 
>    to handle a string pattern
>    - Ensure to escape all quotations in a string 
>    - CSS Object Model <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/> (ex: 
> CSSImportRule<http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/#the-cssimportrule-interface>, 
>    CSSMediaRule<http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/#the-cssmediarule-interface>) 
>    is not implemented. I'll wait until the need arises.  
>
>
> These are some scss <http://sass-lang.com/> features that look 
> interesting. 
>
>    - variables 
>    - partials
>    - mixins
>    - operators  
>    - inheritance 
>
> But as we are in Clojure, I don't want to pull in sass idioms wholesale. 
> So I think garden has the right idea in that respect. 
>
>    - garden declarations 
>    - garden units 
>    - garden color  
>    - garden arithmetic 
>
>
> I'll wait for the need to arise, before wasting too much time or energy in 
> any direction. Feedback is welcome. 
>
>
> Tim Washington 
> Interruptsoftware.com <http://interruptsoftware.com> 
>
>
>  

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