http://simonwillison.net/2012-08-13T15:53:00+00:00Simon Willison2012-08-13T15:53:00+00:002012-08-13T15:53:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2012/Aug/13/why-werent-the-features/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-werent-the-features-of-Sass-originally-built-into-CSS/answer/Simon-Willison">Why weren&#39;t the features of Sass originally built into CSS?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>This is not a straight-forward issue: CSS has a very long, complicated history. A good starting point for understanding the reluctance of the CSS working group to add variables/constants etc to CSS is this essay by Bert Bos of the W3C (entitled Why “variables” in CSS are harmful) <span><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Bos/CSS-variables">http://www.w3.org/People/Bos/CSS...</a></span></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/css">css</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/css3">css3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-development">web-development</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/frontend">frontend</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sass">sass</a></p>