http://www.madskristensen.dk/blog/CommentView,guid,9b4acb83-3ab4-45a0-be95-b4279f4da7d1.aspx
The preceeding link is a an implementation (not my own, obviously) of a ASP.NET "engine-service" which renders your css based on scripted inputs. I know there's a lot to be said for x-platform CSS, but the truth is we don't really have that, and even where it's 99% there, I can think of a few cases where being able to determine a value on the server and have it consistantly used (say the width of an image and the width of its container, or an advert, or even storing preferences for font-sizes, etc.) would be invaluable. If, in a month, I were to try and cobble something like that together which allowed scripting of css files (of course, I'd do my best to adhere to the .script template mechanism and ognl instead of using Java (or C# heh) inline), would anybody be receptive to it? Any feedback that you might offer? Anything I might need to know? If I setup the same duo of CSS component and service as Script currently enjoys, would that work? In a related note, are there are engines in java which read CSS? Does the @Script component at point read/validate the JavaScript it's emitting using Rhino? The beauty of such a service for the .css woudl of course be the chance to cache/and compress the css while we're in there, in essence yeilding css files which are parameterized and compressed. I know white space can be an issue in CSS, though, so I was wondering how such transformatiosn might be accomplished? Thanks in advance for any feedback, Josh --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
