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Pragmatic Guide to Sass
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Pragmatic Guide to Sass

by Hampton Catlin, Michael Lintorn Catlin
December 2011
Intermediate to advanced
128 pages
2h 30m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Appendix 2Introduction to Haml

Haml is something of a sister language to Sass, but Haml was actually designed before Sass. It was successful enough that a CSS-version was developed, applying the same principles of Haml into CSS. They were both developed to clarify the meaning behind design.

Haml was created from the desire to write logically structured HTML that your designer would thank you for. HTML builders shouldn’t make crap: the layout of the page and the information on the page should be logically structured and well named. Haml isn’t a revolution; it’s a statement of the obvious and an adoption of best practices.

Installing Haml is pretty similar to installing Sass. Once Ruby is installed, all you need to type in the command line is ...

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