+1, like the idea
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Federle [mailto:brian.fede...@citrix.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 4:46 PM
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Cc: Sonny Chhen; psb...@gmail.com; Jessica Wang
> Subject: [DISCUSS] CSS framework for CloudStack UI
>
> Hey all,
>
> As part of the next release, I'm planning on doing a lot of cleanup of our
> massive heap of CSS code. As part of this, I want to start using SASS/SCSS
> (http://sass-lang.com/) to improve organization and maintainability.
>
> Particularly, this would allow:
>
> - Splitting CSS into multiple files (by feature), instead of one large 3000+
> line
> CSS. This is then compiled into one CSS during the build, so the browser
> doesn't have to make multiple requests.
> - Hierarchical organization, to reduce redundant selectors
> - Can easily utilize great helper libraries (i.e., http://bourbon.io,) and a
> semantic grid system for cleaner + responsive layout (i.e.,
> http://neat.bourbon.io/)
>
> Since it supports all standard CSS syntax, our UI code can be gradually
> converted feature-by-feature, and we can still retain any legacy CSS for
> certain functionality, if necessary.
>
> The only problem I cannot handle is integrating the SASS compiler (which
> converts .scss->.css) into the UI build phase. I've found a maven plugin at
> https://github.com/Jasig/sass-maven-plugin, so if anyone wants to tackle
> that it would be awesome.
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> -Brian
