CSS Variables TextMate Bundle

So a couple of weeks ago, I’m discussing with my good friend and colleague Sebastian, that I’d been trying (again, for the umpteenth time) to come up with a usable “Dynamic CSS” solution, and I quickly jot the latest syntax down on the whiteboard next to us.

This time I was eager to use “proper” CSS syntax, and then solve the dynamicness with some kind of server-side processing, so I’d chosen to use a special at-rule @variables (though I shortened it to @vars on the whiteboard) for the declaration of variables and then a var() function for retrieving a variable where needed…

Mere two days later this document shows up in my RSS Reader and I’m completely baffled!

So then I thought: “Well, if others have conjured up the exact same syntax, then it’s definitely the way to go. But how do we get to use it now? No-one (save Webkit in a nightly, possibly) is going to actually implement this anytime soon…”

“Well—no harm done, creating a couple of Snippets for TextMate,” I figured, and then I just went ahead and clumsied up a pair of Commands also, so now I’m actually able to use it as an everyday tool when developing CSS.

Go ahead and check it out.

And by all means, let me know if you’re using/hating it…