[Haskell-cafe] Ann: Cascading 0.1.0, DSL for Cascading Style Sheets

[Ertugrul Söylemez]

Hi there,

I've just released the first version of [cascading], library for
writing/generating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in Haskell.  The API
design is inspired by many other projects, including blaze-html, HSP and
Yesod's Lucius.

[cascading]: <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cascading>

Features:

  * Style sheets are monoids and can be MonadWritered.

  * All non-appendix properties of CSS level 2.1 are implemented and
    exposed through a type-safe API.  It's easy enough to set properties
    for which no type-safe API exists.  See the example below.

  * Easy to integrate into all monadic web frameworks, easy to
    interleave stylesheets with framework operations.

  * Builtin support for web-routes.

  * Color space awareness through the colour library.

  * Fully encoding-aware with one caveat:  If you bypass PropValue and
    use ByteStrings as property values directly, then UTF-8 is assumed.

Example:

    stylesheet :: (MonadWriter CSS m) => m ()
    stylesheet =
        onAll $ do
            select ["p"] $ do
                margin . Edges $ [zeroLen]
                padding . Edges $ [_Em # 1, _Ex # 2]

            select ["em"] $ do
                fontWeight BolderWeight

            select ["ul", "ol"] . below ["li"] $ do
                borderColor (LeftEdge green)
                borderWidth (LeftEdge ThickWidth)
                vendors $ "borderRadius" $= ("3mm" :: PropValue)

This results in the following stylesheet:

    p { margin: 0;
        padding: 1em 2ex }

    em { font-weight: bolder }

    ul li, ol li {
        border-left-color: #008000;
        border-left-width: thick;
        border-radius: 3mm;
        -moz-border-radius: 3mm;
        -ms-border-radius: 3mm;
        -o-border-radius: 3mm;
        -webkit-border-radius: 3mm
    }

Please visit the [homepage].  Feedback is always welcome.  If you find
bugs, please don't hesitate to [report] them.

[homepage]: <http://hub.darcs.net/ertes/cascading>
[report]:   <http://hub.darcs.net/ertes/cascading/issues>


Greets,
Ertugrul

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