Why LESS?
LESS was inspired by its predecessors—especially Sass, a ruby project which provides an ingenious solution to a lot of the common problems CSS designers and web developers face when developping large websites.
So why make an alternative to Sass? It's simple: syntax. One of the key features of Sass is its indentation-based syntax, which gives you curly-brace and semi-column free code. But the cost of this is having to learn a new syntax and having to rebuild your current stylesheets.
LESS embraces CSS, and any additional functionality it comes with, is integrated in such a way as to make it as seamless as possible. Thus, you can gradually move your CSS to LESS, or if you're only interesting in using variables, or operations, you aren't forced to learning a whole new language.
Who are we?
Alexis Sellier
- Is also known as
cloudhead - Created and programmed LESS
- Likes to be contacted through twitter or by email:
self at cloudhead dot net
Dmitry Fadeyev
- Created this website, and helps with the language design
- Can be contacted through twitter or via email,
dmitry at usabilitypost dot com - Runs Usability Post, a blog about good design, user experience and usability.