[TYPO3-project-4-3] Fluid CSSEngine folder structure

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Hi Tomaz, Jigal, etc..

I know the way a regular TYPO3 site construction is worked on and I also
know that a strict separation of XHTML/CSS and the further "templating"
in TYPO3 is how most professional agencies work. We also do!

And I agree also that there is no gain for those who don't need any
other features than what CSS provides by default, and for those who are
not interested in getting more speedy frontend rendering by reducing the
number of css files.

Come one guys, once the basis XHTML/CSS is integrated in TYPO3, it turns
more and more unproductive to continue developing it "outside" TYPO3:
there is css_styled_content rendering, there are extensions providing
crazy XHTML-templates with subparts and markers which you cannot style
outside the TYPO3 environment, there are TypoScript generated content
which also needs to be styled...

What the CSSEngine brings us is a proven way to get more productive once
the CSS is integrated in TYPO3. For example concatenating all those CSS
snippets (the main ones from the "agency", from extensions, from
TypoScript) into one single CSS file: this is something noone would do
"by hand", because every component can change at any time. Automating
this task is pretty obvious to me. Speed improvement guaranteed!

And the additional features which would provide me a way to have more
"powerful" css syntax is a bonus I will for sure make use! Aren't you
annoyed about the lack of operations in CSS (e.g. margin-left:
@main-width - 300px)? Or some way to define "constants" to be used
throughout the CSS? The XHTML/CSS crack might live without it, but
maintaining such a CSS is crazy ass boring and error prone.

So my final conclusion: The concept (after all there is no real code and
my arguments are just considering a final product which would fit my
vision) is nice but optional. Just like most other features in TYPO3
are, they can be switched off (or have to be explicetly switched on).

Cheers,
Ernesto