Genuinely wondering: it looks like there went a considerable amount of effort into the design, presentation and polishing of what's effectively a small programmer utility. Do the authors expect to somehow generate an income from this? If so, how?<p>Btw ups for decent cross-platform-ness. Most of the tools in this space are either *nix-only or Windows-only.
I'm using SimpLESS at work at the moment, on both Macs and PC's. I did intend to choose CodeKit (same guys as Less.app), but then read their, frankly immature FAQ.<p>SimpLESS is the perfect name, as the program works brilliantly in the background. I'd highly recommend it for both Mac and PC users.
SimpLESS and less.app have been around for quite some time now. Yet, it is really painful to see so many developers copying-and-pasting compiled css from the chrome dev console. Further, client-side less.js uses ajax, forcing you to setup a web server on some development environments.<p>SimpLESS is highly recommended, as it lets you focus on the code rather than figuring out the compilation bit. Auto-minification is a big plus too.<p>P.S. It's nice to see a good and usable Titanium application. :)
I think this is really nice. I usually find it too much of a hassel to setup the dev environment with less support. The website is really cool as well - nice work!
The idea of compilation-on-save is a very useful one, but here's my only gripe: it needs to be integrated with my IDE. Maybe the idea is that "if you build it, they will integrate."<p>But until then I have my own solution which is that I have a keyboard shortcut that runs a bash script to compile the .less, focus on/open chrome and reload the page (all in one step!). I use the awesome software (windows and mac) quickkeys to do it.
Anyone having issues on Windows? I drag my project folder over...I only have one .less file in my /content folder of an asp.net mvc project. simpleLess throws and error saying Syntax Error on line 1.<p>This Less file works great when using run time compilation.
I'm struggling to get it to run in Linux.
The installer doesn't work, and if I run the binary directly, when I drag a folder, it says... (among other things)..<p>TypeError: Result of expression 'e.dataTransfer' [undefined] is not an object.<p>Any suggestions?
It's not really different from Less.app and just like Less.app you don't need it when developing locally using the client-side approach. If you make compilation part of your deploy you basically don't need these apps at all.
Could someone who uses less regularly lay out the advantages over vanilla css? I see nesting and vender-prefix normalizing, but to me those are pretty small gains. I'm sure I'm missing something.
This is really nice and it looks to be written all in js using Accelerator Titanium. I've never heard of Titanium before anyone have any experience using it? What's it like?
I use this script: <a href="https://bitbucket.org/wooptoo/bin/src/tip/lc" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/wooptoo/bin/src/tip/lc</a><p>SimpLESS is better though.
Is CSS honestly that difficult? I mean I see why this could help but this just seems to add another layer of complication. I don't know maybe I'm just being a cynic with all these sorry excuses for technology.