> Steve,
>
> I'm afraid you've taken a phrase out of context and implied a
> statement that isn't there. As @cristatus said, we're talking about
> the tools used to *make* CSS. Of course in the end, the output is
> going to be a CSS file. No one is doubting or removing support for
> CSS.
>
> sass and tools like it are a shorthand for making maintaining the
> *source* of CSS easier. The end user will never see any of this, and
> you don't have to learn Ruby to use CSS.
>
> Hope that clears things up.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> -Dan
>
> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 11:48 AM Steve Litt [via Asciidoctor ::
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> > On Sun, 17 May 2020 08:57:35 -0700 (MST)
> > "edsa [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion]"
> > <[hidden email]
> > <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=8014&i=0>> wrote:
> >
> >  
> > > I was wondering whether removing support for traditional .css
> > > files and only keeping .scss would make asciidoctor more
> > > dependent on a ruby installation/server.  
> >
> > I haven't been paying a lot of attention to this thread, but when I
> > hear the phrase "removing support for traditional .css files", that
> > scares me to death. As a Troubleshooting Trainer, developer, website
> > owner, content manager, creator and maintainer, I've never seen a
> > technology as valuable and well designed as CSS.
> >
> > Adding an alternative to CSS is fine, as long as CSS is retained
> > and a policy is in force to keep CSS as a first class citizen until
> > it has been unused for several years.
> >
> > New technologies come every year, and the marketing is always the
> > same: "Technology X is over 15 years old and is obsolete, our new
> > technology solves all the problems of Technology X."
> >
> > New technologies always claim to be better because they're newer,
> > but in the vast majority of cases, the newer technology is more of a
> > "Johnny come lately", to be replaced in a year or two by another
> > Johnny come lately. Only a relative few rise to the top, stay on
> > top, to stand the test of time. CSS is one such technology.
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
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