RE: [css-variables] status ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com [mailto:mtanalin@yandex.ru]
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 1:27 PM
> To: Sylvain Galineau
> Cc: Tab Atkins Jr.; Daniel Glazman; www-style@w3.org
> Subject: Re: [css-variables] status ?
> 
> Unfortunately, using preprocessors is not always possible. For example, on
> Windows/IIS platform with a custom CGI executable without ability to use
> any script language, it's completely not an option. Also, using
> preprocessor does not provide ability to make CSS more compact (using Gzip
> not always possible, and is problematic under IIS6 and lower in
> particular).

This is off-topic. Compressing stylesheets when gzip is not available or
compensating for the peculiarities of a given HTTP stack is out of scope.

> 
> Moreover, there is nothing _bad_ in having preprocessor features available
> natively. Using preprocessor for feature that can be easily and reasonably
> implemented natively would be unneeded overhead.
> 
This is off-topic. Local 'preprocessing' is out of scope.