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LESS or SASS?
I've been wanting to learn LESS or SASS for sometimes and I'm leaning toward SASS because of Compass? any suggestions?

What is the advantage of compiling your .less files to CSS?
Hello everyone, over the past month, I've been experimenting with HTML5 / .LESS and redundancy in .CSS, can someone explain to me what ...

For those using .Less (www.dotlesscss.org): You can set Less variables by defining them in the querystring when you call the less file.
I don't think it's practical if you want to set a plethora of variables, but it seems very useful in 80% of all use cases.

Applications which compile your LESS files
You will have to compile your LESS files to CSS to use them in a production environment. This page lists applications which will help ...

What do you people think of Bootstrap. Nice use of less in a grid?
Take a closer look at http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html. I like to know what you think.

Sass vs. LESS vs. Stylus — a Preprocessor Shootout net.tutsplus.com
Wielding the true power of a CSS preprocessor is an adventure. There are countless languages, syntaxes, and features, all ready for use right now. In...

The “dark sides” of LESS (and probably SASS) css3files.com
Christian Krammer, May. 17, 2012 4 Comments LESS and SASS – two akronyms that are very popular these days. These preprocessors seem to, no they sometimes are even praised to be the saviors of CSS. Mixins, variables, nesting,...

SASS vs. LESS css-tricks.com
"Which CSS preprocessor language should I choose?" is a hot topic lately. I've been asked in person several times and an online debate has been popping...

I didn't know you can use variables like this:
@myradius: 5px 5px 10px;
.border-radius(@myradius);
or
.border-radius(~"5px 5px 10px");
less css mixin with parametric A as default for parametric B stackoverflow.com
I'm currently working with LESS CSS and tried to create a mixin that mimics the default css behavior of shorthand parameters. I tried the same with a border-radius mixin .border-radius (@topright: 5px, @bottomright: @topright,...

Tips for using and debugging of Less CSS code thebrightlines.com
Less CSS is cool. No doubt about it. But with all those cool advantages like functions, variables and mixins there must be some disadvantages as well, right? It took me some time to find a major but really obvious drawback: you...

MSIE filter styles in Less thebrightlines.com
The filter style property is not only MS specific, but also does not validate. That does not only pose problems if you want to create a valid CSS file, but also when writing Less code. That’s because Less throws an exception...

Getting Started with Sass alistapart.com
CSS’ simplicity has always been one of its defining, most welcome features. CSS style sheets are just long lists of rules, each consisting of a selector and some styles to apply. But as our websites and applications get bigger...

Just published version 0.1 of my frontend framework (based on Less) for the ASP.NET network.
You can:
- Preview it on http://graphite.estate.nl/
- Download it from: https://github.com/WouterBos/graphite/downloads
