Less.js Will Obsolete CSS

I’m starting to really like the idea of writing less CSS. Especially with all the browser-prefixed properties. It’d be nice to just write one border-radius and have a processor expand it for me.

Less looks promising. Though I’m hesitant about having the processor execute on the client side. It does cache itself in localStorage if the browser supports it. But what about ones that don’t (all of IE)? IE doesn’t have a blazing fast JavaScript interpreter to begin with.

Plus : Every single visitor must spend CPU cycles processing the LessCSS. When the exact same output will be reached every time, I would rather just do it once server side and then serve up a static CSS file. Processed once, cached by all browsers.