It would be very helpful to include the ectcart css file in a format like less or sass. Unless you guys actually hand code all 2000 lines of code for that...

My personal thoughts are that it's not worth any gains for ect to throw this out there to it's user base. Most folks have never hear of less and sass.
I think you can convert your css file to one or the other if it's suits you.

Its not particularly easy to convert a compiled css to its pre-processed form. Plus reconciling differences between files when they are updated would be a chore. I would find it extremely helpful if that is how it is being developed. All it would be is a file included in the /css directory in the uploioad... Even if I could get that on a request basis that would be great.

For those of us who do not understand the gains or benefits of this, can you explain?

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Unless you guys actually hand code all 2000 lines of code for that...

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Yes, that's exactly what they do, so there's no less or sass files available. I do use both, but in this context you have to @import the finished ECT css as-is on top of the base css you wrote with less or sass, and build it into one compiled css file. You wind up with some duplicates, overrides and a bit of a specificity war going on, but it kinda works

Peter

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Having looked at this previously it is quite a ridiculous over complication of such a simple task with no real benefit.

Even worse it appears more than anything to be a way to obfuscate what would normally be very a simple css task by a user and turn it into a very costly IT change.

Unless things have changed recently then the business benefits should be very clearly spelt out.

John

Hmm, as insight (Peter) said, the whole point behind LESS, SASS, SCSS files (full of designer comments) is that you can use a program like GULP to write a process that:

> Imports a number of SCSS files in a specific order, then
> Combines and exports the contents of all into ONE compressed (minified) CSS file,
> Thus reducing file size and number of server CSS file requests, all of which helps to make your website load faster.

ZURB Foundation use GULP SASS as a stock standard compiler tool. It is a more advanced website build process, but you soon come to grips with it and recognise that this is most definitely the way to go.

You can watch a YouTube GULP demonstration video here >

Gary