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Sass and Compass in Action Wynn Netherland, Nathan Weizenbaum, and Chris Eppstein MEAP Began: April 2011 Softbound print: May 2012 (est.) | 300 pages ISBN: 9781617290145 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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Part 1: Introducing Sass and Compass
1. Sass and Compass make stylesheets fun again - FREE 2. Basic Sass syntax - AVAILABLE 3. Getting to know Compass Part 2: Real-world stylesheets 4. CSS grids without the math - AVAILABLE 5. Eliminate the mundane using Compass - AVAILABLE 6. CSS3 with Compass - AVAILABLE 7. From prototype to production - AVAILABLE 8. High-performance stylesheets 9. Wrangling IE and legacy browsers Part 3: Writing Compass frameworks and plugins 10. Scripting with Sass - AVAILABLE 11. Case study: Sencha Touch 12. Compass community plugins 13. Building a personal framework 14. Sharing a plugin with others Appendixes A. Installing Sass and Compass - AVAILABLE B. Configuration options C. Compass command line D. Debugging tips and tools |
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DESCRIPTION
Cascading Style Sheets paint the web as the user sees it, and for fifteen years, we've been painting the web by hand. Sass and Compass extend standard CSS to give you more flexibility and the option to simplify or automate many tedious tasks. Think of Sass and Compass as power tools that allow stylesheet authors to "paint" with remarkable speed and precision.
Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding language features for creating well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin. Compass is a framework that sits atop Sass and tackles common stylesheet problems such as grid layouts, handling CSS3 vendor differences, and production environment stylesheet optimization. Together, they do for CSS what jQuery has done for JavaScript: solve real world problems, letting designers and developers create stylesheets more efficiently.
Sass and Compass in Action is the definitive guide to stylesheet authoring using these two revolutionary tools. Written for both designers and developers, this book demonstrates the power of both Sass and Compass through a series of examples that address common pain points associated with traditional stylesheet authoring. The book begins with simple topics such as CSS resets and moves on to more involved topics such as grid frameworks and CSS3 vendor implementation differences.
Authors Wynn Netherland, Nathan Weizenbaum, and Chris Eppstein cover prominent community plugins that allows stylesheet authors to share styles as developers of other programming languages such as Ruby, Python, Java, and, .NET do. The book also presents Sass and Compass case studies using hot technologies like Sencha Touch. The book culminates in a step-by-step look at building a personal stylesheet framework in which readers can bundle their own approaches and opinions and reuse them across projects.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- Avoid repetition and write less code
- Develop desktop and mobile web apps
- Loaded with examples and reusable techniques
- Written by Sass and Compass creators and core team members
About the Authors
Wynn Netherland is a web designer, front-end developer, JavaScript framework fanboy, and CSS geek. With over fifteen years experience, he's currently is a UX lead and developer advocate with Hewlett Packard's cloud computing team, co-host of The Changelog, and a popular speaker and author.
Nathan Weizenbaum is the creator and the lead developer of Sass. He's currently a software engineer working on Gmail at Google.
Chris Eppstein has more than ten years of experience building web sites. An active member of the Ruby community, he's the creator of Compass, a member of the Sass core team, and maintains or contributes to dozens of open source projects.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of Sass and Compass in Action enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online
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