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0 pointstjpick16y ago0 comments

or use any of the various scripting languages (php, python, perl etc) to serve the css. Problem solved. Just do this behind a cgi or similar for development, and then just run it and save the output as a static file for production.

It's not like variables in a plain text string are a hard thing, for goodness sake.

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chime16y ago· 1 in thread

width: 100% - 2px cannot be done via PHP. That's why this is very interesting. 100% changes depending on your browser window size.

tjpickOP16y ago

well yes, but I was responding to the following from the GP, rather than discussing the power of calc()

> I rather have vars or defs so I can declare a color once...

pbhjpbhj16y ago

I'm pretty sure anyone here will realise this - it's just that it would be better if it were implemented in the spec, I'm amazed that colour definitions aren't in CSS3.

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