http://www.silverstripe.org/home/ http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9910 Using scss / sass (and compass) is a very good decision imho.

I have started using lesscss over 2 years ago - and it does have a javascript compilation tpool also available - preferebly from a cdn.

less css syntax is very similar to scss -- kind of like an extension on top of css. nested selector, functions, variables, mixins - same feature set - a bit different syntax (vars are $ in sass, @ in less for instance).

So good decision - even if I'd go with less - sstripe is an amazing tool kind of the best stuff since sliced bread :)

Even if I have to tell that wordpress is kind of becoming a de-facto CMS in the last few years, tons of plugins, tons of possibilities, easy theming, very nice admin gui (sstripe3 now will be on par with the admin now) since I do like well written code and easy changing of stuff around (this depends on a usable and easy to use, all features document guide / docs!) so sstripe is better for me.

True - the ruby world would be good to have something like silverstripe. In the meantime you can find: http://activeadmin.info/ and http://www.padrinorb.com/ for instance. Mon, 28 May 2012 15:35:08 +1200 John http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9910 http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9644 "I prefer sass over scss.
I tried both and have to say, it's a little sad that silverstripe didn't went with sass all the way.

All these brackets are really lame ;)"

The template engine (and by extension the CSS tools) is targeted at front-end developers, and we trialled both Sass and SCSS on a few projects. In the end, we found that Sass broke too many expectations about CSS and just confused people too much.

If you have a development team who are accustomed to dealing with languages where whitespace matters, then Sass might make more sense, but SilverStripe isn't that kind of project.

In the end, the pitfalls of Sass proved to be very real, and the benefits proved to be much less concrete. So we went with SCSS. Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:50:53 +1200 Sam http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9644 http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9643 "Quite the opposite is the case, it's a shame that a uber-awesome tool like SS requires you to deal with a shitty language like PHP. A similar CMF for Ruby would be the greatest thing since sliced bread."

Maybe we should put together another blog post about why we use PHP. ;-) Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:46:11 +1200 Sam http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9643 http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9618 Hi!

I prefer LESS.
And with lessphp we can generate CSS automatically on the server using PHP.
I think that this would be more homogeneous with SilverStripe. Since SilverStripe is developed in PHP.

Regards,
Jose Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:10:46 +1300 Jose A. http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9618 http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9611 I prefer sass over scss.
I tried both and have to say, it's a little sad that silverstripe didn't went with sass all the way.

All these brackets are really lame ;) Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:45:14 +1300 peter http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9611 http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9606 That sprite map sounds super handy! Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:38:53 +1300 Frank http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9606 http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9604 > At this point I can hear the sighs and murmurs about how you don't want to be forced to use Ruby to develop with SilverStripe […]

Quite the opposite is the case, it's a shame that a uber-awesome tool like SS requires you to deal with a shitty language like PHP. A similar CMF for Ruby would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:05:23 +1300 rbq http://www.silverstripe.org/scss-compass-and-silverstripe-3.0/#PageComment_9604