[Framework-Team] Re: new KSS versions

[Florian Schulze]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:03:03 +0100, Balazs Ree  
<ree at ree.hu> wrote:

> Dear Framework Team,
>
> we submitted the following plip:
> 	
> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/215
>
> We suggest to use the following new kss package versions for Plone 3.1:
>
> kss.core
>
> New kss.core version 1.4, currently on trunk, will be ready to be
> released in January. At the moment the code is testable on trunk.
>
> Key improvements that come with the new version are:
>
>     * faster page load with base2
>     * syntax improvements, eg. recursive value providers, comma
> separated  selectors

The last one "comma separated selectors" is important IMO and makes for  
smaller and more readable kss files.

As already pointed out in this thread, base2 and jQuery are almost  
interchangeable for their selector capability. AFAIK both are really fast  
and especially error free. I also heard jQuery is beginniung to  
incorporate speed improvements from base2. Anyway, in KSS it's just a few  
lines of code to switch and it can be done automatically by checking which  
one is loaded. One thing just occured to me. I think jQuery tends to use  
XPath like selector syntax instead of CSS3 in some special cases, for kss  
files it would be desireable to be as CSS3 like as possible, so this  
should also be a consideration.

Regards,
Florian Schulze