Abstraction | Why Stylesheet Abstraction Matters | CSS Abstractions

CSS has proven to be an effective way to tell a web browser how to style a web page. But it has failed us as a technology for direct use by professionals who engineer websites. It should now be viewed more as an assembly language that higher-level languages emit, but that we shouldn’t be bothered with. The really great news about this approach is that we don’t have to introduce any new technologies for browsers to build or standards to be adhered to. You can start using Sass and Compass today. What are you waiting for? Oh, instructions; here’s a great tutorial on Sass and Compass to get you up and running.