Turbine

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Turbine is a collection of PHP-powered tools that are designed to decrease css development time and web developer headache. This includes:

• A new, minmal syntax – the less you have have to type, the more you get done
• Packing, gzipping and automatic minification of multiple style files
• Constants (also known as "css variables") and selector aliases as well as nested css selectors
• Oop-like inheritance, extension and templating features
• Built-in device-, browser- and os sniffing
• Many automatic bugfixes and enhancements for older browsers
• Fully exensible through a very simple plugin system. A basic understanding of PHP is enough to add completely new features to Turbine
• A CSS to Turbine converter and a shell app for experiments and development

Example

Turbine takes this...

#foo
    color:red
    div.foo, div.bar
        margin, padding:4px
        border-radius:4px

and turns it into:

#foo {
    color: red;
}
#foo div.foo, #foo div.bar {
    margin: 4px;
    padding: 4px;
    -moz-border-radius: 4px;
    -khtml-border-radius: 4px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 4px;
    border-radius: 4px;
}

It is somewhat compareable to Sass and Scaffold, but more radically geared towards getting as much done as possible in as few keystrokes as possible.

We need your help!

Turbine is still in active development. Help us to make it better!

• Download Turbine, test it and report any bugs you find
• Fork it and tackle some bugs
• Help improving the browser sniffer