From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2007-11-30T11:27:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] csspool 0.2.0 Released

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:27:39PM +0900, Cristi BALAN wrote:
> On 11/29/07, Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
> > Gossip Girl says:
> >
> > csspool version 0.2.0 has been released!
> >
> > * <http://csspool.rubyforge.org/>
> >
> > CSSpool (pronounced "cesspool") is a validating SAC parser for CSS.  The parser
> > calls methods on a document handler depending on what it has found. CSSPool
> > currently only supports CSS 2.1.  CSSPool will not yield invalid properties or
> > selectors.
> >
> > [Snip]
> Hi Aaron,
> 
> Long time listener, first time caller... Love the show, btw.
> 
> I've been toying around with the lib and I noticed some issues:
> 
> - the Manifest tends to contain a .DS_Store entry which crashes rake
> package so rake install_gem (the way i usually install csspool) fails
> with: "Don't know how to build task '.DS_Store'".

Doh.  I don't know why that is there.  I'll remove it and release again.

> 
> - the example on the homepage doesn't work for me. I get
> "uninitialized constant CSS::SAC::Parse (NameError)" when I try to run
> it. However, the earlier examples, which show inheriting from
> CSS::SAC::DocumentHandler work for me, if i also add a "require
> 'rubygems'" first

Yes, because I made a typo.  Try CSS::SAC::Parser.

> 
> - the following css breaks css breaks the parser and makes it ignore
> all rules and declarations after the error. In css, with browsrs at
> least, an error should just ignore the respective property or
> properties, so I was expecting similar behaviour. I'll try to get my
> hands into the ragel stuff, but this might take a while since I
> haven't done any before, saw a presentation at euruko, tho :).
> 
> So, the bad css that's preventing me from getting a pink background
> and a blue p:
> a { color: red; }
> body { border: solid 1px; #000; color: pink; }
> p { color: blue; }

Great!  Thanks for the test case.  I'll add that to my test suite and
get it working.

> 
> >
> > This is a tenderlovemaking dot com joint.
> >
> > --
> > Aaron Patterson
> > http://tenderlovemaking.com/
> >
> >
> 
> Again, thanks a lot for this project, it's looking really cool and useful :).

Thanks.  Keep the bugs coming, I need them to make it mo betta.

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/