Still more no charge awesomeness

Before I start my small discussion on “Are We Getting Dumber”, let me just say that there is yet even more kick ass things that have come out since I wrote the first part of this little series. Sass 3.1.0 came out, and is going by the name of Brainy Betty. It added some neat stuff to its already great ability, like getting the inverse of a color, Sass based functions, keyword arguments, and more. Granted I probably won’t use a lot of it, but it is still cool that it has been updated. You can read about the improvements it received on Sass’ changelog. Just to note as well, Haml and Sass have been separated into two different gems, so you can install them independently now.

Compass received an update as well, going to version 0.11.1. Some things have changed in this new version which might force you to go back and rewrite some things if you update, but I’ll let you know about that when I upgrade this week. I read the change log and a couple of things stand out. First, is that the linear and radial gradient mixins have been deprecated. We’ll use the background-image mixin instead, and pass it a gradient function. Here is an example of the old way (from my site):

#myDiv {
@include linear-gradient(color-stops($orange, darken($orange, 25%)), left); 
}

And what it will look like now:

#myDiv {
@include background-image(linear-gradient(left, $orange, darken($orange, 25%))); }
}

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